The chain : a memoir & reimagined biography

Summary: "Part Moulin Rouge, part Into the Wild, part Legally Blond, The Chain is the thrilling and often terrifying memoir of a young woman learning to mine for gold in the remote Yukon. Alongside her story, Brandee Radford maps the re-imagined life of Kate Rockwell, the chanteuse and dancer who captured the heart of Dawson City a century before, and who Brandee looked to for strength and inspiration in her hardest hours. Building a lakefront mansion and glamorous life out of the profits of gold dust, she also barely escaped grizzlies, was lost in the bush, spent 32 hours clinging to the side of a mountain in an excavator and lived through the cruelest betrayal a woman can experience. An antique gold chain brings them together<U+2014>and becomes a symbol for the long chain of women who helped build the world, only to be written out of history." - Back Cover.