On this episode of Our American Stories no woman figured more prominently on the Yukon and Alaskan frontiers than Belinda Mulrooney She gained international fame as the richest woman in the Klondike and made and lost more than one fortune She became a character in novels and her dog the inspiration for Buck in the Call of the Wild Here to tell the story is Roger McGrath author of Gunfighters Highwaymen and Vigilantes Violence on the Frontier Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories no woman figured more prominently on the Yukon and Alaskan frontiers than Belinda Mulrooney She gained international fame as the richest woman in the Klondike and made and lost more than one fortune She became a character in novels and her dog the inspiration for Buck in the Call of the Wild Here to tell the story is Roger McGrath author of Gunfighters Highwaymen and Vigilantes Violence on the Frontier Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories David LaBelle's last memory of his mother was seeing her washed away in a raging flood when he was a senior in high school She would never be found It took David years to wrestle with the loss and eventually he decided to write a semi-fictional book about the event called Bridges amp Angels as a therapeutic exercise No woman figured more prominently on the Yukon and Alaskan frontiers than Belinda Mulrooney She gained international fame as the richest woman in the Klondike and made and lost more than one fortune She became [... more]

The Weeping Alaskan Cedar tree whipped from side to side in the storm rsquo s strong winds Regie loved the tree that had not only provided shelter from the summer sun but also protected her family from the neighbors rsquo gaze Now the fierce storm was tearing the roots from the ground Quickly Regie with her -year-old son in tow ran to try to rescue the tree With her hands and -pound frame firmly planted against it she hoped with her son rsquo s help to keep it from falling over But they weren rsquo t strong enough God was [... more]

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