| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly 32.2

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Book Review

Staking Her Claim: The Life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska Entrepreneur. By Melanie J. Mayer and Robert N. DeArmond. (Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2000. xxii + 415 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

Using a vast array of primary documents and manuscript versions of interviews of their subject, Melanie Mayer and Robert DeArmond examine the life of Belinda Mulrooney, a young Irish immigrant woman who succeeded as a restaurateur, miner, real estate developer, general contractor, merchant, and banker in gold rush Alaska and the Klondike. Emphasizing Mulrooney's nearly ten years in the north, the authors show how a single, young, determined woman succeeded socially and financially in a man's world. . . .

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