Author: May Kellogg Sullivan

May Kellogg Sullivan was an American traveler and writer who went north during the Klondike and Nome gold rushes. She had taught music and painting, was married, and had no children at home; her first trip, from California in 1899, was paid for with money borrowed from friends. She returned the next year to cook for miners near Nome and to take up gold claims of her own at Golovin Bay, and her publisher later recorded seven Alaska trips spread over ten years. Those journeys produced two books, A Woman Who Went to Alaska (1902) and The Trail of a Sourdough: Life in Alaska (1910), and almost nothing else of her private life is on record, not even her birth and death dates.