Miners’ wives, innkeepers, bakers, laundresses, seamstresses, dancers and prostitutes … the women of the Klondike were few in numbers, but essential in the varied roles they played. At a time when the feminist movement was still in its infancy in North America, these women were every bit as independent and determined as any man. The Lili Klondike series tells the story of Liliane Doré and Rosalie Laliberté, two French Canadian women who joined the gold rush not only in search of riches, but also in a quest for love and freedom. Along the way, they contend with the dreamers, the reckless, the resourceful, the liars, the thieves and worse yet. Through them all, we participate in what was the largest human migration since the crusades.
Lili Klondike paints a vivid picture of the gold rush fever that spread throughout North America in July 1897. Driven to the ends of a hostile territory by their lust for gold, tens of thousands of Americans and Canadians as well as hundreds of Europeans converged on Dawson City. This is the story of a journey through rugged and unforgiving wilderness where the most fierce displays of cruelty were not always those of nature. Personal stories blend into one another and are woven into the historical events that make up the last chapter of the American Far West.
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