TITLE:
North of 53 : the wild days of the Alaska-Yukon mining frontier, 1870-1914 / William R. Hunt.
Alternate Title:
North of fifty three
Publication Date:
1974
Publication Information:
New York : Macmillan,
Physical Description:
xvi, 328 p. : ill.
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
