In 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion
the incredible succession of events that Pierre Berton's
exhilarating The Klondike Fever chronicles in all its splendid and
astonishing folly. For the steamer Portland bore two tons of pure
Klondike gold. And immediately, the stampede north to Alaska began.
Easily as many as 100,000 adventurers, dreamers, and would-be
miners from all over the world struck out for the remote, isolated
gold fields in the Klondike Valley, most of them in total ignorance
of the long, harsh Alaskan winters and the territory's indomitable
terrain. Less than a third of that number would complete the
enormously arduous mountain journey to their destination. Some
would strike gold. Berton's story belongs less to the few who would
make their fortunes than to the many swept up in the gold mania, to
often unfortunate effects and tragic ends. It is a story of cold
skies and avalanches, of con men and gamblers and dance hall girls,
of sunken ships, of suicides, of dead horses and desperate men, of
grizzly old miners and millionaires, of the land - its exploitation
and revenge. It is a story of the human capacity to dream, and to
endure.
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