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Mae Field
Mae Field was born in Minnesota and ran away to Duluth when she was young.1) “Whiskey” Bartlett managed her time at the Comique Theatre until her brother took her home. She ran away again a month later to dance at Hill City, South Dakota. She married Arthur Field who had owned and managed bars in the area since 1890. They honeymooned on the way to the Klondike with Arthur’s mining equipment. They lost most of the equipment on the trip, but the couple arrived safely in late June 1898. They acquired claims on Bear Creek and Arthur applied for a liquor licence as a back-up plan. There were warnings of a food shortage in Dawson that winter and Mae returned south. Her mother sent her back north and she was able to return to Dawson before navigation closed. Mae recalled that they cleaned up about $100,000 in the spring of 1899.2)