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Mayer, Melanie Juel was born on February 25, 1945 in Hamilton, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Edward J. and T. Jewel Mayer.
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Klondike Women: True Tales of the 1897??898 Gold Rush by Melanie J. Mayer (1989-11-15)
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Klondike Women: True Tales of the 1897–1898 Gold Rush
( Klondike Women is a compelling collection of historical...)
Klondike Women is a compelling collection of historical photographs and first-hand accounts of the adventures, challenges, and disappointments of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields. In the midst of a depression near the turn of the twentieth century, these women dared to act on the American dream. As they journeyed through the Northwest wilderness, they explored and extended not only the physical frontiers of North America but also the social frontiers about the women’s place.” Challenging the myth that the only women who participated in gold rushes were prostitutes and gold-diggers of the euphemistic sort, Melanie Mayer shows us that Klondike women came from all walks of lifesocialites to poor immigrants, single women, wives, widows, and children. They planned to make their money through many different undertakings including mining, business, entertainment, professional, and service enterprises. Their approaches to life were as varied as their rolesoptimistic or skeptical; cautious or adventuresome; gregarious or self-contained; contemplative or active. There was no typical Klondike woman. Individually, their stories can be funny, hopeful, tragic, or poignant. Taken together, they give rich, complex images of the people, times, and places of the gold rush. A visually exciting book, Klondike Women features over 150 photographs and illustrations. This volume should appeal not only to the general reader, but to those interested in history, women’s studies, and the Pacific Northwest as well.
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Klondike Women: True Tales of 1897-1898 Gold Rush: True Tales of the 1897-98 Gold Rush
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Melanie Juel Mayer
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Melanie Juel Mayer, American Psychology educator. Grantee National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute; recipient Research Career Development award, National Institutes of Health National Eye Institute, 1983-1988. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Optical Society American, Association Research in Visionand Ophthalmology.
Education
Bachelor in Chemistry, Cornell Univercity, 1967; Master of Arts in Experimental Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Psychology, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, 1973.
Career
Professor psychology and psychobiology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1972-1996; professor emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996.
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Klondike Women: True Tales of the 1897–1898 Gold Rush
( Klondike Women is a compelling collection of historical...)
- Klondike Women: True Tales of the 1897??898 Gold Rush by Melanie J. Mayer (1989-11-15)
- Klondike Women: True Tales of 1897-1898 Gold Rush: True Tales of the 1897-98 Gold Rush
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Klondike Women: True Tales of the 1897–1898 Gold Rush
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Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Optical Society American, Association Research in Visionand Ophthalmology.
