North of 53 : the wild days of the Alaska-Yukon mining frontier, 1870-1914 / William R. Hunt.
North of 53 : the wild days of the Alaska-Yukon mining frontier, 1870-1914 / William R. Hunt.
Alternate Title
:
North of fifty three
By
:
Hunt, William R., 1929-
Publication Date
:
1974
Publication Information
:
New York : Macmillan,
Physical Description
:
xvi, 328 p. : ill.
Geographic Term
:
Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries.
Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959.
Yukon Territory -- History.
Bibliography Note
:
Bibliography: p. [311]-321.
Summary
:
Hunt offers an exciting anecdotal account that follows hungry prospectors, canny shopkeepers, hopeful hangers-on, and crafty lawyers through the gold mining camps and temporary towns of nineteenth-century Alaska. Hunt has hiked and mined many of the same claims he writes about in the book, and North of 53 offers a rare glimpse into far-flung communities from Skagway to the Yukon to the deep interior of Alaska to the Ididarod and Nome on the Bering Sea.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780025575103
| Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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| Grand Falls-Windsor (CGF) Harmsworth | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 917.98 H91 | Back Room |