Catherine Holder Spude
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Catherine Holder Spude

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Catherine Holder Spude worked for the National Park Service as a historical archaeologist, conducting archaeological projects in national parks throughout the Western United States (mostly in Alaska). After her retirement, she has devoted her time to writing Western history, both in fact and in fiction. She has published five books in addition to eight archaeological monographs published by the Government Printing Office. Many of the latter are for sale on Amazon.com as reprints or used copies; she has contributed to half a dozen others. She has published in journals and magazines such as Historical Archaeology, Arctic, Alaska History, CRM, NOLA, and True West Magazine. THE SKAGWAY NEWS, in Skagway, Alaska, regularly runs her history features. Cathy edited the 1898 diary and 1910 memoir of Will Woodin, who went to the Klondike gold rush; Washington State University has published it under the title ALL FOR THE GREED OF GOLD: WILL WOODIN'S KLONDIKE ADVENTURE in May 2016. Her well-received social history of Progressive Era Alaska, SALOONS, PROSTITUTES, AND TEMPERANCE IN ALASKA TERRITORY, was released by the University of Oklahoma Press in February 2015. She won the Western Writers of America's Finalist Spur Award in 2013 for best non-fiction biography for "THAT FIEND IN HELL": SOAPY SMITH IN LEGEND, published by the University of Oklahoma Press. She worked with 20 archaeologists, historians and ethnologists in Alaska and the Yukon Territory to produce ELDORADO! THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN GOLD RUSHES, which the University of Nebraska Press published in 2011. In 2006, Lynn Canal Publishing, in Skagway, Alaska, published her first historical novel, SIN AND GRACE.
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