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On this boat, made in this crude way, Miss 

 Keen and her party were able to make the 

 slow and at times tedious journey to Dawson 

 in safety. Since then I have met Miss Keen 

 on two occasions and have heard her lecture 

 to a large audience. Her lectures are interest- 

 ing and instructive, and as she has many very 

 good lantern slides, the audience can, through 

 their help, get a vivid understanding of the 

 plucky work she did when making her two 

 expeditions up this hitherto unclimbed moun- 

 tain. 



I have been featuring some women of the 

 Klondike, and think it but right and fitting 

 to say something about this modest-looking, 

 brave, energetic woman of Pennsylvania, who 

 in the years to come will be known as "the con- 

 queror of Mount Blackburn." 



Miss Keen had one great advantage in the 

 fact that she had a ripe experience to help her, 

 having scaled some of the noted peaks in 

 Switzerland. She was, therefore, better fit- 

 ted for her two ascents of Mount Blackburn 

 than possibly any one else in the whole of 

 Alaska. 



It is nevertheless remarkable that she, with 

 her seven men, had the rare courage to start 

 alone, determined to win the summit of this 



