George Carmack
Books
- A Ton of Goods Ledgers, Law, and the Klondike Gold Rush · Liszt Think
In July 1897, the steamers Excelsior and Portland docked with a ton of gold, igniting a stampede that would test the limits of human endurance and bureaucratic order.
- The Land of the Midnight Sun (pre-1896)…they were about to be overwhelmed by a force that no one in the country had the capacity to imagine. In the winter of 1895-96, a man named George Carmack was living near the mouth of the Klondike River. He had come north in 1885 and had married a Tagish woman, Kate, the sister of Skookum Jim.…
- The Prospector’s Map…th of the Klondike River showed their ribs in the low August light of 1896, a full year before the world would learn what lay beneath them. George Carmack knelt at the edge of a shallow cut where Rabbit Creek entered the larger stream, working a battered tin pan through the cold water in slow,…
- The Winter of the SecretThe claims had to be filed before the river closed. That was the first pressure, the first institutional consequence of what George Carmack and Skookum Jim had pulled from the gravel of Bonanza Creek. The gold was in the pan. The gold was in the ground. But until a man stood bef…