One Man's Gold Rush
A Klondike Album
by Murray Morgan
Illustrated w/ PHOTOS by E A Hegg
University of Washington Press, c1967, 2nd Printing 1967, 213 pages. VERY GOOD+ Condition Hardcover with a GOOD+ to VERY GOOD Condition Dust Jacket protected with a Mylar Cover. This book is ex-library with usual markings, library binding & dj edgewear/chipping. Pages & Binding are NICE & TIGHT!
This book is a PHOTO JOURNAL of the Alaskan Gold rush of 1878-1879, FILLED with VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS taken from GLASS PLATES not published since 1900 by E. A. Hegg who rushed up with his camera equipment to catch the moment, it is one of the best documentaries of this exciting time in Alaska's history! These photos were taken in the Worst of conditions & the most trying of circumstances and are still GREAT!!
Contents includes:
The Making of a Klondiker
The Way North
Dyea and the Chilkoot Pass
Skagway and the White Pass
Down the Yukon
Dawson
The Dark Sands of Nome
The Lost Legacy
Maps: Endpapers of the Klondike District, Chilkoot Pass North of Dyea, White Pass North of Skagway, White Horse Rapids, The Klondike Gold Fields
KEYWORDS: Historic Photographs, Seattle, Yukon, Nome, Vintage Photos, U.S. History, The Scales (HORRENDOUS Mountain Climb), Historic Railway, Railroads, Whitewater Rapids, Photography, Historian, Mining, Old West, Pioneering Days, Wild West, Pioneers, Miners, Surveyors
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