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The Nature of Gold - An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (Paperback)
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The Nature of Gold - An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (Paperback)
Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
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In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich
pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers,
and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to
the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging
setting. Ever since that time, the Klondike Gold Rush - especially
as portrayed in photographs of long lines of gold seekers marching
up Chilkoot Pass - has had a hold on the popular imagination. In
this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse
describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining
technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they
obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and
economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging
industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and
explores the ways in which a web of connections among America's
transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to
other industrial and agricultural laborers across the country. The
profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the
Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times. The
story Morse tells is often narrated through the diaries and letters
of the miners themselves. The daunting challenges of traveling,
working, and surviving in the raw wilderness are illustrated not
only by the miners' compelling accounts but by newspaper reports
and advertisements. Seattle played a key role as "gateway to the
Klondike." A public relations campaign lured potential miners to
the West and local businesses seized the opportunity to make large
profits while thousands of gold seekers streamed through Seattle.
The drama of the miners' journeys north, their trials along the
gold creeks, and their encounters with an extreme climate will
appeal not only to scholars of the western environment and of
late-19th-century industrialism, but to readers interested in
reliving the vivid adventure of the West's last great gold rush.
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