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North of 53° : the wild days of the Alaska-Yukon mining frontier, 1870-1914

Title: North of 53° : the wild days of the Alaska-Yukon mining frontier, 1870-1914 / [by] William R. Hunt.
Author: Hunt, William R.
Publication: New York : Macmillan, [1974]

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Description

xvi, 328 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Alternative Title

North of fifty-three degrees
Wild days of the Alaska-Yukon mining frontier, 1870-1914

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. [311]-321.

Contents

Part I: Early days on the Yukon. Opening the land ; Early trading ; Mining ; Forty mile ; Circle, 1893-96 -- Part II: the Klondike era. Seattle gets the news ; Skagway and Soapy Smith ; Chilkoot and White Passes ; Army help and Arctic fraud ; Yukon voyage ; Glacier madness ; Overland and river routes ; Dawson City ; Soldiers, sailors, and settlers on the Yukon -- Part III: Nome, Fairbanks, and other Alaskan camps. Nome, the American Klondike, 1899 ; The turbulent scene, 1900 ; Lawless camp: Nome in 1900-1901 ; Judge Wickersham in Eagle and Nome ; The founding of Fairbanks ; Tanana Valley style ; Founder-swindler Barnette of Fairbanks ; Restless camps and busy trails ; Soldier on the Yukon ; High rollers and their recreations ; Settling down: George Pilcher, Will Ballou, and the Lomens ; The Guggenheims come to Alaska ; Other camps -- Part IV: The different frontier?. Law and order ; The U.S. government's role in Alaska ; Natives and the mining frontier ; Northern journalism ; Labor strife ; James Wickersham and gold land politics ; The literary frontier.

ISBN

0025575104
9780025575103

LCCN

74012404

OCLC

ocm00979260
979260
SCSB-216691

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library