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NELLIE CASHMAN: Prospector and Trailblazer.
Edition: First printing, a slim trade paperback.
El Paso, TX Texas Western Press / The University of Texas at El Paso, (1993). First edition - Biography of Irish-born Nellie Cashman (1850-1925) who, after arriving in Boston in the 1860s, soon went West and became a prospector and boarding house proprietor in mining towns ranging from Californian to Nevada to Tombstone, Arizona, . She was the first Caucasian woman to trek British Columbia's rugged Cassiar Mountain region and half a century later was the first woman to fly there in an airplane. Southwestern Studies No. 98. Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award Illustrated with vintage photographs throughout,Notes, bibliography. xii, 83 pp. ISBN: 0-87404-1945.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60769More details Price: $18.50