Baby Doe Tabor : queen of the Matchless Mine -- Ellen Nay : founder of the Ellendale Mines -- Dame Shirley : miner on the Feather River -- Nellie Cashman : toughest of the lady sourdoughs -- Gertrude Peckwith : prospector at the Golden Empire -- Frances Williams : founder of the Coaldale Mining Company -- Lillian Malcolm : prospector in the Silver Peak Mountains -- Josie Pearl : owner/operator of the Juanita Mine -- Charley Hatfield : miner at Colorado's Pikes Peak -- Ethel Berry : miner bride of the Klondike -- Frances Allen Noyes : miner on Candle Creek -- Ferminia Sarras : Nevada's copper mining queen -- Glossary of mining terms