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The nature of gold : an environmental history of the Klondike gold rush
- Title
- The nature of gold : an environmental history of the Klondike gold rush / Kathryn Morse ; foreword by William Cronon.
- Author
- Morse, Kathryn Taylor.
- Publication
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2003], ©2003.
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- Description
- xviii, 290 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America's transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural laborers across the country. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times." "The story Morse tells is often narrated through the diaries and letters of the miners themselves. The daunting challenges of traveling, working, and surviving in the raw wilderness are illustrated not only by the miners' compelling accounts but by newspaper reports and advertisements. Seattle played a key role as "gateway to the Klondike." A public relations campaign lured potential miners to the West and local businesses seized the opportunity to make large profits while thousands of gold seekers streamed through Seattle." "The drama of the miners' journeys north, their trials along the gold creeks, and their encounters with an extreme climate will appeal not only to scholars of the western environment and of late-19th-century industrialism, but to readers interested in reliving the vivid adventure of the West's last great gold rush."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Weyerhaeuser environmental books
- Uniform Title
- Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
- Subjects
- Gold mines and mining > Environmental aspects > Alaska
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Gold discoveries
- Gold miners > Alaska > History > 19th century
- Frontier and pioneer life > Alaska
- Alaska > Gold discoveries
- Frontier and pioneer life > Yukon > Klondike River Valley
- Alaska > Environmental conditions
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Environmental conditions
- Gold miners > Yukon > Klondike River Valley > History > 19th century
- Gold mines and mining > Environmental aspects > Yukon > Klondike River Valley
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-274) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / William Cronon -- Introduction: On the Chilkoot -- 1. The Culture of Gold -- 2. The Nature of the Journey -- 3. The Culture of the Journey -- 4. The Nature of Gold Mining -- 5. The Culture of Gold Mining -- 6. The Nature & Culture of Food -- 7. The Nature & Culture of Seattle -- Conclusion: Nature, Culture, and Value.
- ISBN
- 0295983299 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003048411
- OCLC
- 51984829
- ocm51984829
- SCSB-8414646
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries