Nellie Cashman. A Modest Tribute To The Memory Of A Noble Woman, Whole Energetic, Courageous, Self-Sacrificing Life Was An Inspiration On A Wide Frontier During Half A Century

JOHN P. CLUM

Publication: Reprinted from the Arizona Historical Review, January, 1931, N P

First edition. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, n. p. (32 pp.), frontispiece (portrait of Nellie Cashman), illustrated, portraits. Considered as "The Angel of Tombstone," this is a tribute to her by the publisher and editor of "The Tombstone Epitaph," John P. Clum. Chronicles the life of Cashman from her beginnings in Ireland through her adventures in mining camps in Arizona, British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska. "Her principal business was to feed the hungry and shelter the homeless, and her chief divertissement was to relieve those in distress and to care for the sick and afflicted. She persisted in good deeds through half a century…" Cashman was an extraordinary figure in Western mining frontier history ... as a woman entrepreneur, humanitarian, prospector and adventurer. Fine copy.