Klondike
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)…river system that ran nearly two thousand miles from its headwaters in the lakes of the southern Yukon to its delta on the Bering Sea. The Klondike River entered the Yukon near the middle of this system, a modest tributary that wound through a valley of moss and spruce and muskeg, unrem…
- The Prospector’s MapThe gravel bars at the mouth 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 kne…
- The Winter of the Secret…re a recorder kept his ledgers and his stamps. Fortymile, in the second week of September 1896, became the first institutional organ of the Klondike gold rush. The settlement was a cluster of log cabins and cached supplies serving the prospectors who worked the upper Yukon drainage. The…