Gold Diggers - Striking It Rich in the Klondike (Paperback)

Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of more than thirty thousand. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush in history. Scurvy, dysentery, frostbite, and starvation stalked all who dared to be in Dawson. And yet the possibilities attracted people from all walks of life. "Gold Diggers" is the remarkable story of the Klondike Gold Rush told through the lives of six very different people: the miner William Haskell; the saintly priest Father Judge; the savvy twenty-four-year-old businesswoman Belinda Mulrooney; the imperious British journalist Flora Shaw; spit-and-polish Sam Steele of the Mounties; and, most famous, the writer Jack London, who left without gold but with the stories that would make him a legend. Brilliantly interweaving their experiences, Charlotte Gray presents a fascinating panorama of a subarctic town, drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and stories and handsomely illustrated with more than sixty original photographs and maps.

General

Imprint:	Counterpoint
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2011
First published:	August 2011
Authors:	Charlotte Gray
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	432
ISBN-13:	978-1-58243-765-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-58243-765-3
Barcode:	9781582437651

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