{"product_id":"lady-lumberjack-dorothea-mitchell-9780991776504","title":"Lady Lumberjack: Dorothea Mitchell at Silver Mountain","description":"Lady Lumberjack: Dorothea Mitchell at Silver Mountain is a story of pioneering adventure, early days of Northwestern Ontario mining and forestry, wilderness homesteading southwest of today's Thunder Bay, colourful characters, frontier railroading about a British-born trailblazer breaking into a tough business world long before the doors were open to women. \u003cbr\u003eIn the early 1900s, after the Silver Mountain Mines closed, besides running a general store and railway station, she owned\/operated a sawmill and became known as \"Lady Lumberjack\". \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLady Lumberjack tells of old-time bush logging and milling, contests for business and the struggle to be paid, the discouragements of intensely cold weather and a disastrous fire, the fun of a mixed mining and forest industry region, where Dorothea Mitchell was one of the \"boys\" - but still very much a lady.\u003cbr\u003eDorothea Mitchell was also the first unmarried woman in Ontario to be granted a homestead, later scripted and acted in Canada's first feature film, A Race for Ties, and was 90-years-old when her first book, the best-selling Lady Lumberjack, was published.\u003cbr\u003eLady Lumberjack: Dorothea Mitchell at Silver Mountain is her original book published in 1967. Out-of-print for many years, it is now reissued as part of the renaissance of the historic Silver Mountain and area.\u003cbr\u003eLady Lumberjack by Dorothea Mitchel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothea Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 099177650X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780991776504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Pu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/06\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Dorothea Mitchell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441563611391,"sku":"9780991776504","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_226e934f-e828-40f3-aa30-11aea4994f54.jpg?v=1777191688","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lady-lumberjack-dorothea-mitchell-9780991776504","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}