Learn more about Carrie Adell Strahorn - the first white woman to tour the entire Yellowstone Park and one of the first to travel to and write about the wilds of Alaska.

Works by Carrie Adell Strahorn
Articles in the Omaha Republican, 1877 – 1881.

"Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage: A Woman’s Unique Experience during Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering from the Missouri to the Pacific and from Alaska to Mexico." New York and London: Putnam, 1911.

Works About Carrie Adell Strahorn
Bean, Margaret. “ ‘Railway Sphinx’ Made Fortune, then Lost It.” Spokesman-Review (Spokane Wash.), Feb 3, 1957. On Robert Strahorn; includes information about Carrie’s career.

Durham, N.W. History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington. Spokane: S.J. Clarke, 1912, vol. III, pp. 5-11. Biographies of Robert and Carrie Strahorn.

“The Passing of Mrs. Robert E. Strahorn. A Few of the News Excerpts, Editorial Comments and Sketches of Her Remarkable Career in Pacific Coast Papers.” Leaflet, 1925, copy in William Andrews Clarke Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Newspaper clippings in the Spokane Public Library include a note and a photograph of Carrie from the Spokane Chronicle, Jan. 18, 1916, and an unidentified obituary of March 18, 1925.

Tinling, Marion. Women Into The Unknown: A Sourcebook on Women Travelers and Explorers. New York; Westport, Connecticut; and London: Greenwood Press: 1989, pp. 273-276

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