May Kellogg Sullivan's 1903 book "A Woman Who Went to Alaska" is a story, or rather a record of facts more interesting than historical fiction, as it recounts the experiences and adventures of Mrs. Sullivan in two trips from California to Alaska, covering in time some eighteen months and in distance over 12,000 miles. This woman, born in 1859, was the wife of a Baptist minister and traveled practically without a companion, and tells in. an attractive and thrilling manner her various trials and triumphs.
In introducing her book, Sullivan writes:
"In answer to the oft-repeated question of why I went to Alaska I can only give the same reply that so many others give: I wanted to go in search of my fortune which had been successfully eluding my grasp for a good many years. Neither home nor children claimed my attention. No good reason, I thought, stood in the way of my going to Alaska; for my husband, traveling constantly at his work had long ago allowed me carte blanche as to my inclinations and movements."
May Lydia Kellogg was born Feb. 2, 1859. She married Mar 30, 1886, Rev. Frank Lewis Sullivan, in Wakefield, Mass. The reason she went to Alaska was to visit her father and brother who were there. She wrote two books: "The Woman Who Went To Alaska" and " The Sourdough."
