Gold fever in the North : the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush era : a Gold Rush Centennial exhibition
Title:
Gold fever in the North : the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush era : a Gold Rush Centennial exhibition
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Dean Littlepage, guest curator.
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Publication Information:
Anchorage : Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Municipality of Anchorage, c1997.
Physical Description:
viii, 40 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
ISBN:
9781885267016
General Note:
At head of title: Alaska Gold Rush centennial.
Catalog of the exhibition Gold Fever in the North held May 8-November 9, 1997 at the Anchorage Museum.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 38).
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Contents:
Map of norther gold discoveries -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Klondidke supply list -- Early years / Jack McQuesten, Father of the Yukon -- To the Klondike!: Avalanche! -- Into Alaska: Nome -- Fairbanks -- Iditarod -- Cook Inlet -- Life in the North: Immigrants among the stampeders -- Miners called her mother -- Gold rush mining: Klondike kings (and one queen) -- Other ways to get rich / Matty Crosby, Iditarod entrepreneur -- By river, rail and trail: White Pass and Yukon route -- Bureaucracy that worked: Government on the gold rush frontier: Allen expedition: A thousand miles on an empty stomach -- Native peoples and the gold rush: Fish camp on the Klondike -- Century later: Legacy of the gold rush era -- Bibliography -- Sources of quotations -- Gold rush timeline.