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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

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