Bonanza Creek
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)…gold that would fill the next register, the one that would be opened in August 1896, was still in the ground. It lay in the gravel beds of Bonanza Creek and its tributaries—Eldorado, Hunker, Dominion, and Gold Run—where it had been deposited by geological processes over millions of years and…
- The Prospector’s Map…A flicker of color appeared in the black sand at the bottom, small and bright, caught in the rim like a scale from a fish. The discovery on Bonanza Creek was not a bolt from the wilderness. It was the product of specific relationships and local knowledge, built from years of accumulated socia…
- The Winter of the Secret…osed. 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 before a mining recorder and swore to what he had found, the go…