Marie Riedeselle

Marie A. Riedeselle (née Landry, died April 26, 1915) was a Canadian-born American bicyclist, dress designer, osteopath, hiker and hermit.

[3][4] She used dark navy fabric, with "dashes of red Chinese silk" and long tassels fastened at the waist.

[2] She opened a sanatarium at Dawson City in 1900,[9] offering massages, baths, haircare, rest, and healthful meals to exhausted or injured miners.

[10] After making a reported fortune in Alaska,[11] she moved to Southern California, where she lived alone as a "hermitress" in a cabin in Santa Anita Canyon.

[7] She died in 1915, from dysentery, while on a pilgrimage at an ashram in Dehradun, India: "In her struggle against cooked food, which she always disliked, she swallowed nothing but water of the holy Ganges," explained an acquaintance who was with her in the end.