<p>Born Mary Welsh, she participated in the Klondike Gold Rush, arriving in Skagway in 1897 where she worked as a waitress. She later opened a "grub tent" near Log Cabin. She later was murdered by her husband in 1902.
</p><p>Caption on image: Mollie Walsh, the wonder girl of White Pass Trail. Alone and without help in the winter of 1897-8 she ran a tent roadhouse and fed and lodged the wildest and most persistent men Alaska ever saw and remained as clean morally as the snow that fell on her tent.
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<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Women--Yukon</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): Walsh, Mollie</li></ul>
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