| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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Book Review

Searching for Fannie Quigley: A Wilderness Life in the Shadow of Mount McKinley. By Jane G. Haigh. (Athens, OH: Swallow Press [Ohio University Press], 2007. xxi + 185 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

Jane Haigh became interested in Fannie Quigley some years ago while researching the history of Denali National Park and Preserve (formerly Mount McKinley National Park). Quigley by then had become legendary. She had participated in the Klondike and Fairbanks gold rushes, where, although she staked claims, she mostly lived by operating roadhouses. In 1905, she moved to the remote Kantishna area near Denali Park with Joe Quigley, whom she later married. She remained there, with and without Joe, until her death in 1944. She mined, trapped, hunted big game, gathered wild berries and rhubarb, raised vegetables, and cut and hauled her own firewood. She fed visiting scientists, mountain climbers, and others meals famous for their excellence. But when Haigh asked other longtime Alaskan women about Fannie Quigley, "they looked askance, dismissed her, or simply giggled" (p. xv).

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