Through the Yukon and Alaska.
Title:
Through the Yukon and Alaska.
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By T.A. Rickard ...
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Publication Information:
San Francisco, Mining and scientific Press, 1909.
Physical Description:
xiii, [1], 392 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including maps) 24 cm
Abstract:
Observations made during a journey through Yukon Territory and Alaska in 1908.
Local Note:
"The Silent City, " Chapter 5: p. 63-76. Includes a copy of the photograph.
Bibliography Note:
"Books of reference": page 385.
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Additional Physical Form Available:
Also available in digital form.
Contents:
The inland sea -- Discovery and development -- Juneau -- The Treadwell Mines -- The men in the mines -- The glaciers of Alaska -- The silent city -- Sitka -- Alaska and California -- Chinook, natives, and game -- Skagway -- The stampede to Dawson -- On the White Pass Railway -- White Horse -- On the Upper Yukon -- Dawson -- The gold of the Klondike -- The diggings -- Development of mining methods -- On Bonanza Creek -- The Yukon Ditch -- From Dawson to Faribanks -- Fairbanks -- Cleary Creek -- Arctic agriculture -- On the Lower Yukon -- St. Michael and Nome -- Nome and the Eskimo -- The dog race -- The three Swedes -- The golden beaches of Nome -- Anarchy at Nome -- The ride to Ophir -- San Francisco.