Author: Graham Wilson. Published by Wolf Creek Books, Whitehorse, Yukon, 1997, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada by Friesens. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with light cover handling. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9 x 6 inch, 112 pages.
THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH, Photographs from 1896 - 1899, by Graham Wilson, is filled with 125 archival photographs document the Klondike Gold Rush and tell the day-to-day story of the ordinary stampeder.
Carefully selected anecdotes and written accounts provide further insights and illumination of this fascinating event. This is the Official Book of the Klondike Gold Rush Centennial.
DID YOU KNOW? The Klondike Gold Rush began on August 16, 1896, when local prospectors George Carmack, Skookum Jim Mason, and Tagish Charlie discovered rich gold deposits on Bonanza Creek in the Yukon region of northwestern Canada. News of the strike did not reach the outside world until July 1897, when steamships heavily laden with gold arrived in Seattle and San Francisco. Coming off the heels of the severe economic depression caused by the Panic of 1893, this news triggered a massive, frantic migration of roughly 100,000 economically desperate prospectors, known as stampeders, who set off for the remote wilderness in hopes of striking it rich.
