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Gold diggers : striking it rich in the Klondike / Charlotte Gray.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2010.Description: xiii, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1582436118
  • 9781582436111 :
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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.
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Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of over thirty thousand people. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush in history.



Scurvy, dysentery, frostbite, and starvation stalked all who dared to be in Dawson. And yet the possibilities attracted people from all walks of life--not only prospectors but also newspapermen, bankers, prostitutes, priests, and lawmen. Gold Diggers follows six stampeders--Bill Haskell, a farm boy who hungered for striking gold; Father Judge, a Jesuit priest who aimed to save souls and lives; Belinda Mulrooney, a twenty-four-year-old who became the richest businesswoman in town; Flora Shaw, a journalist who transformed the town's governance; Sam Steele, the officer who finally established order in the lawless town; and most famously Jack London, who left without gold, but with the stories that would make him a legend.



Drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and stories, Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling tale of the gold madness that swept through a continent and changed a landscape and its people forever.

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.

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