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supplying archival images and information. Laura Mann of the Dawson City Museum sent me their entire file on Lillian and some new photos of her as well, which was a wonderful surprise. They will be the recipients of my research files on Lillian Alling. The Carrie McLain Museum in Nome, Alaska, provided me with old news clippings from 1929, which proved invaluable.
    Leslie Hamson of North Words Consulting was able to find some previously unknown information about Lillian by using the Yukon Archives. Elena of Blitz Information Russia was a great help in searching through Soviet newspapers. Siberian blogger and journalist Bolot Bochkarev was also of great assistance.
    Lillian has been a passion and obsession for many people. Some have done their own research on her and collected documents and interviews but for their own reasons never put their thoughts into a book or an article. Instead, they generously shared their information with me. Alain Deschamps of Limoges, France, was extremely kind and sent all his Lillian research to me. Dietger Hollman mailed me a copy of his story on Lillian, which gave some new insight into her time in Atlin.
    There were countless other local historians and interested folk who patiently answered my phone calls and emails with courtesy and enthusiasm. I thank them all very much.
    Thank you to those people who read the manuscript in its early stages: Dan Davidson of Uffish Productions, Elizabeth Hunter of the Quesnel Museum, Jean Mackenzie, Bill Miller, Agnes Smith and Lorna Townsend. The line drawings were provided by Eric Josephy. Thank you, Eric.
    Big thanks to editors Jane Stevenson and Betty Keller for their guidance. Thank you also to Vici Johnstone from Caitlin Press, who said “I’m interested” right from the start.
    And the biggest thank you to Walter Josephy, for everything.

Selected Bibliography
Books, Articles and Pamphlets
    Albee, Ruth and Bill.
Alaska Challenge
. London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1941.
    â€”——. “Don’t Pity the Poor Eskimo,” Part I & II,
Popular Mechanics
, November 1938.
    Andersen, Earl.
Hard Place to Do Time: The Story of Oakalla Prison: 1912–1991
. New Westminster: Hillpointe Publishing, 1993.
    Angus, Colin.
Beyond the Horizon
. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Ltd., 2007.
    Bennett, Martin L. “She Walked from New York to Russia.”
True
magazine, November 1941.
    Berton, Laura Beatrice.
I Married the Klondike.
Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2006. Originally published: McClelland & Stewart, 1961.
    Bride, W.W. “Lone Adventuress,”
The Beaver
, September 1943.
    Burr, Martin.
In Bolshevik Sibera: The land of ice and exile
. London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1931.
    Coates, Ken S. and William R. Morrison.
Land of the Midnight Sun.
Edmonton, AB: Hurtig Publishers Ltd., 1988.
    Cooper, Richard W. “Lonely Woman Headed Home the Hard Way,”
Western People
, WP4, January 3, 1985.
    Coutts, R.
Yukon: Places and Names
. Sydney, British Columbia: Gray’s Publishing, 1980.
    Dickie, Francis. “Mysterious Lillian: Human Homing Pigeon.”
True West
magazine, April 1972.
    â€”——. “New York–Siberia: The Astonishing Hike of Lillian Alling” in
Pioneer Days of British Columbia
, by Art Downs. Victoria: Heritage House, 1975
    Duke, David Gordon, “Mystery surrounds the real Lillian Alling,”
Vancouver Sun
, October 13, 2010.
    Eley, Thom. “Sergeant William Yanert, Cartographer from Hell.” In the
Geographical Review
, Vol. 92, 2002.
    Greenfield, T.E.E.
Drugs (Mostly)
. Meaford, Ontario: The Knight Press, 1976.
    Hoagland, Edward.
Notes from the Century Before: A journal from British Columbia
. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1969.
    Hoyle, Gwyneth.
Flowers in the Snow: The Life of Isobel Wylie Hutchison
. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
    Hrdlicka, Ales.
Alaska Diary 1926–1931
. Lancaster Pennsylvania: The Jaques