Research Catalog

Title

North of 53° : the wild days of the Alaska-Yukon mining frontier, 1870-1914 / William R. Hunt.

Author

Hunt, William R.

Publication

Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2009.

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Description

xvi, 328 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

An account of the Alaskan gold rush of 1897 with anecdotes about prospectors, shopkeepers, and lawyers. Discusses the adjustment to the rough land.

Alternative Title

North of 53[degree symbol]

Subject

• Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Gold discoveries
• Alaska > History > 1867-1959
• Yukon > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Previously published: New York : Macmillian, 1974.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-321) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Early days on the Yukon -- 1. Opening the land -- 2. Early trading -- 3. Mining -- 4. Forty Mile -- 5. Circle, 1893-96 -- II. The Klondike era -- 6. Seattle gets the news -- 7. Skagway and Soapy Smith -- 8. Chilkoot and White passes -- 9. Army help and Arctic fraud -- 10. Yukon voyage -- 11. Glacier madness -- 12. Overland and river routes -- 13. Dawson City -- 14. Soldiers, sailors, and settlers on the Yukon -- III. Nome, Fairbanks, and other Alaskan camps -- 15. Nome: the American Klondike, 1899 -- 16. The turbulent scene, 1900 -- 17. Lawless camp: Nome in 1900-1901 -- 18. Judge Wickersham in Eagle and Nome -- 19. The founding of Fairbanks -- 20. Tanana Valley style -- 21. Founder-Swindler Barnette of Fairbanks -- 22. Restless camps and busy trails -- 23. Soldier on the Yukon -- 24. High rollers and their recreations -- 25. Settling down: George Pilcher, Will Ballou, and the Lomens -- 26. The Guggenheims come to Alaska -- 27. Other camps -- IV. The different frontier? -- 28. Law and order -- 29. The U.S. government's role in Alaska -- 30. Natives and the mining frontier -- 31. Northern Journalism -- 32. Labor strife -- 33. James Wickersham and Gold land Politics -- 34. The literary Frontier -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781602230545 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1602230544 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009007969

OCLC

263994273

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library