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The story of Harriet Smith Pullens early life, from her childhood journeys by covered wagon to her familys subsistence in sod houses on the Dakota prairie where they survived grasshopper plagues, floods, fires, blizzards, and droughts is a narrative of American migration and adventure that still resonates today. But there is much more to the legendary womans life, revealed here for the first time by Eleanor Phillips Brackbill, her great-granddaughter, who has traveled the path of her ancestor, delving into unpublished material, as well as sharing family stories in this American story that will capture the imagination of a new generation.
After migrating by emigrant train to Washington Territory, Harriet endured typhoid fever and a shipwreck, then homesteaded among the Quileute people on the coast of Washington, where she married Dan Pullen, with whom she was an equal partner in ranching and managing an Indian fur-trading post before a life-changing series of events caused her to strike out for the north. In 1897, she landed in Skagway, Alaska, broke and alone after leaving her husband and four children in Washington, determined to make a fresh start and to reunite with her sons and daughter. Newly independent and empowered, she became an entrepreneur, single-handedly hauling prospectors provisions into the mountains where gold beckoned and then starting the Pullen House, an acclaimed hotel.
Later in life, Harriet would entertain her guests with fabulous stories about the gold rush and her renowned collection of Alaskan Native artifacts and gold rush relics. She achieved near-legendary status in Alaska during her lifetime and The Queen of Heartbreak Trail brings to life moments that are well known and moments that have never before been publishedher arrest for holding a claim jumper at gunpoint, her grueling courtroom testimony defending herself against the spurious accusations of a malevolent employer, and, how, in her fathers words, she turned out her husband of twenty years.

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Copyright 2016 Eleanor Phillips Brackbill

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Names: Brackbill, Eleanor Phillips.

Title: The Queen of Heartbreak Trail : the life and times of Harriet Smith Pullen, pioneering woman / Eleanor Phillips Brackbill.

Description: Guilford, Connecticut : TwoDot, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015027949| ISBN 9781493019137 (hardcover : alkaline paper) | ISBN 9781493019144 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Pullen, Harriet S. | Women pioneersAlaskaSkagwayBiography. | PioneersAlaskaSkagwayBiography. |

BusinesswomenAlaskaSkagwayBiography. |

HotelkeepersAlaskaSkagwayBiography. | Skagway (Alaska)Biography. |

Frontier and pioneer lifeAlaskaSkagway. | AlaskaGold discoveries. |

Klondike River and Valley (Yukon)Gold discoveries.

Classification: LCC F914.S7 B73 2016 | DDC 979.8/03092dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015027949

The Queen of Heartbreak Trail The Life and Times of Harriet Smith Pullen Pioneering Woman - image 2 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.

In memory of Harriet Stuart Pullen Phillips

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1.1.

A postcard of Harriet Smith Pullen in her Tlingit ceremonial shirt, ca. 1920

1.2.

Alanson B. and Matilda Bush Smith, ca. 1853

1.3.

A. J. Smiths diary, title page, 1853

1.4.

One of A. J. Smiths scripture cards, 1850s

2.1.

Wisconsin farm on the land that was once the Smiths homestead, May 2013

2.2.

A. J. Smiths diary, title page, 1859

2.3.

A. J. Smiths diary, entry for the day of Harriets birth, August 13, 1860

2.4.

A. J. Smiths diary, war journal title page, 1866

2.5.

A. J. Smith in his Civil War uniform, June 1866

3.1.

South Dakota farm on the land that was once the Smiths homestead, May 2013

3.2.

An insert from A. J. Smiths diary, the day of son Harvey Beadle Smiths birth, 1874

4.1.

Rocky Mountain locusts, otherwise known as grasshoppers, 1870s

7.1.

Miss Harriet Smith, Afterwards Mrs. H. S. Pullen, in Hatties handwriting, ca. 1881

7.2.

Daniel Webster Pullen, February 1880

7.3.

Tillie Atwood and Hattie Smith, ca. 1880

7.4.

La Push, Washington, aerial view, ca. 194570

7.5.

Quileute police officer, another Quileute, Chester, Royal, and Dee Pullen next to the Pullens house, ca. 1893

7.6.

The Pullens La Push house and woodshed from the northwest, February 1888

7.7.

Sam and his son Buster ( K--lish ), on the porch of the La Push Pullens house, ca. 1895

7.8.

Dee and Royal Pullen in the yard of the La Push house, ca. 1890

7.9.

Gold Digger and Sunday, Hatties horses, 1890

8.1.

A. Wesley Smith, his assistant teacher, and Quileute students, ca. 1890

9.1.

La Push beach looking toward James Island from the Pullens house, ca. 1890

9.2.

A drawing by John P. McGlinn, Indian agent, of proposed Quileute houses, December 23, 1889

9.3.

Hattie and her family with the tower addition to the house, 1895

10.1.

The Pullens governess at La Push, Washington, ca. 1890

10.2.

The Baxter-Pullen trial witnesses, June 1893

10.3.

Harriet in her riding habit and plug hat, with her farm animals in Skagway, ca. 1902

11.1.

The SS Rosalie docked in Skagway, ca. 1898

11.2.

Skagway street scene, summer 1897

11.3.

Landing supplies on the Skagway beach, 1897

11.4.

A flooded Skagway street, ca. 1900

12.1.

The Pack Train Saloon, August 1897

12.2.

Farewell Banquet to Captain H. W. Hovey at the Pullen House, Skagway, May 1902

12.3.

Dee Pullen standing on a locomotive near Skagway, ca. 1900

12.4.

Harriet, Chester, Dee, Royal, and Mildred Pullen in Skagway, ca. 1903

13.1.

Harriet in the Pullen House sun parlor, ca. 1920

13.2.

A postcard labeled Mrs. Pullen and Pullen House Bus in Early Days, ca. 190414

13.3.

Harriet in her Tlingit shirt with a basket, undated

13.4.

A postcard of the Pullen House and Harriet, Skagway, 191416

13.5.

A postcard labeled Mrs. Pullen, Horse, & Dog, 190913

14.1.

The Smith family in Quillayute, June 1896

14.2.

The gravestone of Andrew Jackson Smith and Mary Jane Stewart Smith, 2015

14.3.

Daniel W. Pullen and his sons, Dee, Chester, and Royal, ca. 1906

14.4.

Quileutes in front of what was once the Pullens house in La Push, ca. 1900

14.5.

Harriet, wearing military medals on her lapel in Skagway, 1941

14.6.

Harriet, First Lady Florence Harding, and Alaska Territory Governor Bone, July 1923

14.7.

Harriet and two of her dairy cows in front of the Pullen House, ca. 1905

14.8.

Harriet in Skagway, 190913

14.9.

Harriet, undated

14.10.

A photo of Harriet in her Tlingit shirt near the railroad tracks in Skagway, undated

14.11.

The Pullen House sun parlor chimney and fireplace, 2013

14.12.

A page from the Pullen auction catalog, 1973

Afterword.1. Harriet wearing the gold earrings, 1886

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