Nellie Cashman: Prospector and Trailblazer (Southwestern Studies, No. 98)

Nellie Cashman: Prospector and Trailblazer (Southwestern Studies, No. 98) by Ledbetter, Suzann. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780874041941.

While the 19th centurys rules of ladylike demeanor were as straitlaced as whalebone corsets. Nellie Cashman didnt depart her beloved Ireland and adopt America as her homeland to be shackled by Victorian convention. Incurably stricken with gold fever, Cashman became a prospector and thrived on adventure. She saved Grand Central Mining Company magnate E.B. Gage from an Old West-style “necktie party," prevented five men convicted in the Bisbee Massacre from the degradation of a circus-style execution, was the first white woman to trek British Columbias rugged Cassiar Mountain region and -a half-century later- was the first woman to fly there in an airplane. When not searching tor the Mother Lode, she established and profitably managed businesses in Tucson Tombstone. and Dawson. in the Yukon Territory, foster-mothered five nieces and nephews and contributed time and money to numerous charities. Arizona: novelist Jeanne Williams said of this book. "This is a lively. well dune and long overdue tribute to one oi the Wests must fascinating women."