TY - BOOK AU - Gray,Charlotte TI - Gold diggers: striking it rich in the Klondike SN - 1582436118 PY - 2010/// CY - Berkeley, CA PB - Counterpoint, Distributed by Publishers Group West KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Yukon KW - Klondike River Valley KW - Gold mines and mining KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Dawson (Yukon) KW - Klondike River Valley (Yukon) KW - Biography KW - Gold discoveries N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-398) and index; Color and chaos. Arctic secrets, June 1896 ; Bill Haskell's dreams of gold, 1890-1896 ; Mob justice and wild dogs, June-November, 1896 ; "Five dollars to the pan!", October 1896-April 1897 ; Sourdough success, April-June 1897 -- Mining the miners. Father Judge's flock, May-June 1897 ; Belinda Mulrooney stakes her claim, June 1897 ; Jack London catches Klondicitis, July-October 1897 ; Starvation rations, October-December 1897 ; The Pioneers' Show, January-March 1898 -- Money talks. Gumboot diplomacy, April-August 1898 ; Jack's escape from the Yukon, June 1898 ; Rags and riches, May-June 1898 ; Flora Shaw, "from Paris to Siberia," July 1898 ; "Queer, rough men," August 1898 ; Scandal and Steele, September-October 1898 -- Order and exodus. "Strong men wept," October 1898-January 1899 ; A cleansing fire, February-April 1899 ; Stampede to Nome, summer 1899 ; Mythmakers -- Afterlives : what happened to the six gold diggers? -- The spell of the Yukon ER -