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Carmack of the Klondike

Title
Carmack of the Klondike / James Albert Johnson.
Author
Johnson, James Albert, 1905-
Publication
Seattle, WA, USA : Epicenter Press ; Ganges, BC, Canada : Horsdal & Schubart, ©1990.

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Description
x, 166 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
Summary
Biography of George Washington Carmack, the California man who discovered gold at Bonanza Creek, Yukon Territory, thereby starting the Klondike Gold Rush. Details his years of wandering and prospecting in Alaska and the Yukon.
Subject
  • Carmack, George W. 1860-1922
  • Carmack, George W. 1860-1922
  • Carmack, George W
  • Pioneers > Yukon > Klondike River Valley > Biography
  • Gold miners > Yukon > Biography
  • Gold miners
  • Gold mines and mining
  • Pioneers
  • Goldsuche
  • Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Gold discoveries
  • Yukon
  • Yukon > Klondike River Valley
  • Klondike
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-164) and index.
Contents
1. Klondike miners strike golden paystreak -- 2. Young Carmack gripped by gold fever -- 3. Into the Yukon -- 4. Carmack meets a Tagish girl -- 5. Roaming the Yukon -- 6. Carmack discovers Klondike gold -- 7. Carmack stakes discovery claim on Bonanza -- 8. Winter mining on Bonanza Creek -- 9. Payoff in the Klondike -- 10. Marguerite jumps Kate's claim -- 11. Kate sues for divorce -- 12. The Tagish village at Caribou Crossing -- 13. The peaceful Seattle years -- 14. Carmack continues his search for gold.
ISBN
  • 0945397089
  • 9780945397083
  • 0920663109
  • 9780920663103
LCCN
90003820
OCLC
  • ocm21910195
  • 21910195
  • SCSB-1917401
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library