Selected Bibliography

Books, Articles and Pamphlets

Albee, Ruth and Bill. Alaska Challenge. London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1941.

———. “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.

———. “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 Cattel Press, 1944.

Hunt, William R. Arctic Passage. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1975.

Hutchison, Isobel Wylie. North to the Rime-Ringed Sun: An Alaskan Journey. New York: Hillman-Curl Inc., 1937.

Jutta, Frank. Abenteuer an Pelly und Yukon oder 6 Eier bis Dawson. 2003 traveldiary.de, Reisliteratur-Verlag. Jens Freyler, Hamburg.

Koshevoy, Hymie. “More on Lillian Ailing,” the Province, May 2, 1973.

Lebedev, V.V. “Siberian Peoples: A Soviet View” in Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska. William W. Fitzhugh, Aron Crowell, eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988.

Madsen, Charles, with John Scott Douglas. Arctic Trader. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1957.

Miller, Bill. Wires in the Wilderness. Victoria: Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., 2004.

Millman, Lawrence. “Chasing Yukon’s Mystery Woman.” Yukon News, December 10, 2007.

Perdue, Edward M. Lost Adventures From Wango to Solovetski Island with John William Adkins: Westboro, MA, Curry Printing, 2004.

Potterton, L.A.N. Northwest Assignment. Kelowna, BC: Mosaic Enterprises, Finlay Printing, 1972.

Pybus, Cassandra. The Woman Who Walked to Russia. Markham, Ontario: Thomas Allen & Son Ltd., 2002. First published in Australia as Raven Road. Cassandra Pybus. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2001.

Reed, J. Irving. “Did She Reach Siberia?” Alaska Life, June 1942.

Satterfield, Archie. After the Gold Rush. Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1976.

Stainsby, Donald. “She Walked 6,000 Miles to the Top of the World.” Weekend Magazine, No.17, Vancouver Sun, April 27, 1963.

Stewart Advancement League pamphlet. “The Gateway to the Mines of the Portland Canal District; the Mountain Anthracite Coal Fields and the Logical Railway Outlet for the Peace River Valley,” May 1928.

Weatherford, Doris. Foreign and Female: Immigrant women in America, 1840–1930. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1995.

Yardley, Joyce. Yukon Riverboat Days. Surrey, BC: Hancock House Publishers Ltd., 1996.

Yellowhead/Stewart/Cassiar Times. “Woodcock Remembers Siberian Girl and Telegraph Trail,” April 24, 1990.

Newspapers

Omineca Herald, 1927–1928

The Whitehorse Star, 1928

Dawson News, 1928–1929

The Province, Vancouver 1973

Yukon News, 1965

Nome Nugget, 1929

Archives and Libraries

Archdiocese of Toronto

Atlin Historical Society

CP Archives

Dawson City Museum

GIC MVD [Main Information Centre of the Ministry of Interior Affairs], Russian Federation

Hazelton Pioneer Museum & Archives

Hyder Museum

Ladysmith Archive

Library Archives Canada

National Archives and Records Administration

Prince Rupert Public Library

Quesnel Branch of the Cariboo Regional District Library

Royal BC Museum

Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives

Stewart Museum

University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Vancouver Public Library

Yukon Archives

Papers and Manuscripts

Gaffin, Jane. “John Olaf Erickson: Prospector and Hotelier.” Unpublished article.

Hollmann, Dietger. “Mystery Woman—Der weite Weg der Liliane Alling.” Unpublished manuscript (in German).

Smith, Diane Solie. “The Legend of Lillian Alling: The Woman Who Walked to Russia,” Atlin Historical Society, 1997.

Whitehouse, Ed. “The Woman Who Walked to Nowhere.” Unpublished manuscript.