Marion (nickname, "Minnie") Augusta Manville[1] was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, July 13, 1859.

In her early childhood, she wrote verses in great numbers, and most of her work was surprisingly good for someone of her age.

Her love for children led her to write for them, and in their behalf, she contributed both prose and verse to St. Nicholas Magazine, Wide Awake, Our Little Ones, The Nursery, Babyhood, and other periodicals devoted to the young.

"[3] Pope's writings inspired the allegorical sculpture, The End of the Trail by James Earle Fraser (1915).

She does not reveal the full secret of her contrivance, but she tells enough to show that it can be depended upon to carry its passengers through most amazing experiences.

There are funny episodes, tragic events, privations by cold and hunger, involuntary ups and downs and much of that sort of slangy epigram in conversation that may have been due to abnormal experiences, but more likely to habits formed while not ascending a mountain in a boat.

"[6]On September 22, 1891, she married Charles Alvin Pope, FRGS, author,[7] of Valparaíso, Chile, and she made that city her permanent home.