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Libby: The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of LIbby Beaman, 1879-1880, as Presented by her Granddaughter Betty John - Libby Beaman, Betty John
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"...Libby Beaman was an amazing woman—she had a job as a mapmaker when "respectable" women were not allowed careers; she sustained a four-year secret courtship and convinced her fiancé to change his career in order to facilitate an introduction to her family. It was Libby's personal petition to President Rutherford B. Hayes that was responsible for her husband's assignment to the Pribilofs (a fact she never told her husband)..."
(E.B., p. 237)