Josephine KnowlesJosephine Knowles was born in Buffalo Prairie, Illinois, in 1864. She lived in Nebraska, Selma, California, and Oakland, California before her extraordinary year in the Klondike in 1898. She returned to San Francisco in the spring of 1899 and spent te rest of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was the grandmother of noted psychologist Muriel James, who edited Knowles' manuscript and wrote the foreword. Knowles died in Berkeley, California, in 1936, at the age of 71. Read More Read Less