Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896-1899
by Pierre Berton

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The author spent the first 12 years of his life in Dawson City. He knew the city and its people well, he tells of the astonishing stories, the incredible hardships and risks men had to endure to reach Dawson.The 3,000 who tried to claw their way over the glaciers from the Pacific, of the most desperate route down the Mackenzie River almost to the Arctic, of the 30,000 souls who made their way down the Chilkoot route. In Dawson, food was scarce , there was lawlessness and starvation on the river. The author follows many of the heroes of the Klondike to their deaths years later in other places and in very different circumstances.

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Weight:	1.04 kg
Price:	CDN$ 25.00 (US$ 24.33)

Stock Number:	12990AN
Author:	Pierre Berton
Publisher:	McClelland & Stewart Toronto
Publication Date:	1972
Pages:	472 pp
Size/Dimensions:	8vo
Binding:	Cloth
Condition:	Book spine ends and corners bumped, small stain at edge of text block, foxing to top of text block. No annotations. Illustrated endpapers. Bibliography and index.