| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.3

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The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900. Edited by Victoria Joan Moessner and Joanne E. Gates. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1999. xviii + 390 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, indexes. $22.95, paper.)

Companions of the Peace: Diaries and Letters of Monica Storrs, 1931–1939. Edited by Vera K. Fast. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. viii + 246 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. £37.50, cloth, UK; $50.00, cloth, US; £12.95, paper, UK; $19.95, paper, US.)

Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952) and Monica Storrs (1888–1967) were both cultured English women who described parts of the Northwest at the edge of the ecumene. Robins described community life of the Nome gold rush. Storrs lived among settlers and trappers of the Peace River district of northern British Columbia. Both wrote vivid and memorable accounts of their experiences, often deploring the challenging circumstances of local inhabitants and their subarctic climate. Native people, while mentioned, were peripheral to both women's focus on white settler societies. . . .

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