Title Queen of Heartbreak Trail

Published TwoDot, 2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents List of Illustrations; Family Tree; Introduction; Chapter One: Queen of Heartbreak Trail; Chapter Two Wisconsin 1854-1869; Chapter Three Dakota 1869-1877; Chapter Four "Looking for Better Times"; Chapter Five Washington 1877-1881; Chapter Six Quillayute Country; Chapter Seven The Pullen Family 1881-1889; Chapter Eight The Quileutes; Chapter Nine La Push 1889-1897; Chapter Ten A Man with a Badge; Chapter Eleven Skagway 1897-1902; Chapter Twelve The Independent Entrepreneur; Chapter Thirteen The Pullen House; Chapter Fourteen New Century; Afterword; Appendix; Acknowledgments; Endnotes Selected SourcesIndex; About the Author Summary The story of Harriet Smith Pullen's early life, from her childhood journeys by covered wagon to her family's subsistence in sod houses on the Dakota prairie where they survived grasshopper plagues, floods, fires, blizzards, and droughts is a narrative of American migration and adventure that still resonates today. But there is much more to the legendary woman's life, revealed here for the first time by Eleanor Phillips Brackbill, her great-granddaughter, who has traveled the path of her ancestor, delving into unpublished material, as well as sharing family stories in this American story that will capture the imagination of a new generation. After migrating by emigrant train to Washington Territory, Harriet endured typhoid fever and a shipwreck, then homesteaded among the Quileute people on the coast of Washington, where she married Dan Pullen, with whom she was an equal partner in ranching and managing an Indian fur-trading post before a life-changing series of events caused her to strike out for the north. In 1897, she landed in Skagway, Alaska, broke and alone after leaving her husband and four children in Washington, determined to make a fresh start and to reunite with her sons and daughter. Newly independent and empowered, she became an entrepreneur, single-handedly hauling prospectors' provisions into the mountains where gold beckoned and then starting the Pullen House, an acclaimed hotel. Later in life, Harriet would entertain her guests with fabulous stories about the gold rush and her renowned collection of Alaskan Native artifacts and gold rush relics. She achieved near-legendary status in Alaska during her lifetime and The Queen of Heartbreak Trail brings to life moments that are well known and moments that have never before been published?her arrest for holding a claim jumper at gunpoint, her grueling courtroom testimony defending herself against the spurious accusations of a malevolent employer, and, how, in her father's words, she "turned out" her husband of twenty years Notes Print version record Subject Pullen, Harriet S SUBJECT Pullen, Harriet S. fast Subject Women pioneers -- Alaska -- Skagway -- Biography Pioneers -- Alaska -- Skagway -- Biography Businesswomen -- Alaska -- Skagway -- Biography Hotelkeepers -- Alaska -- Skagway -- Biography Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska -- Skagway HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Businesswomen Frontier and pioneer life Gold mines and mining Hotelkeepers Pioneers Women pioneers SUBJECT Skagway (Alaska) -- Biography Alaska -- Gold discoveries Klondike River and Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries Subject Alaska Alaska -- Skagway Genre/Form Biographies Form Electronic book ISBN 1493019147 9781493019144

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