Nellie Cashman Cashman escaped the Irish potato faine to mine the American West. she combined adventure with compassion, braving Canadian blizzards for two months to save 75 miners dying of scurvy and courageously facing Tombstone at the time of the gungiht at the O.K. Corral and the Apache Wars. The chamion female Klondike muser at 75, Nellie died penniless. How could I avoid writing her story?
Last week’s writing brought Nellie, her mother, Frances, and sister, Fannie, onto a coffin ship in Queenstown, Ireland head for America.
Today, they go through the crossing, where there were not enough food or space, and those who died were thrown overboard. But they survive to arrive in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Published by Jane Carlile Baker, Author, Editor, Teaching Consultant
Jane has loved writing from the time she learned to hold a pencil. Her writing journey moved from that pencil to personal computers through the seventies, she edited for a hospital public relations department. The eighties found her owning a public relations business, publishing newspaper and magazine articles, and directing communications for a large church. In the nineties she published her first book and led critique groups and writers' workshops. In the twenty-first century she became a teaching consultant for the National Writing Project, published several more books, and began an editing business.
Jane also loves raising chickens, dogs and alpacas, gardening, oil painting, swimming and hanging out with her family.
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