Yukon River
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)The wind came down the Yukon River from the north, steady and dry, pressing the smoke from the cabin chimneys at Fortymile flat against the rooflines. At the confluence where…
- The Prospector’s Map…l of Mounted Police maintained Canadian authority over the mining district. The news spread rapidly from there to other mining camps in the Yukon River valley. The registration was a formal act, not a dramatic one. No shout echoed through the valley. No crowd gathered on the banks. No celeb…
- The Winter of the Secret…s that the names in it represented fortunes in gold. The paper trail ended at the wall of the Yukon winter. The freeze came in October. The Yukon River, the only artery connecting the interior to the coast, began to change. Where the current ran slow, the water formed a skin of ice along th…