Early days on the Yukon & the story of its gold finds. . . . de [YUKON -- KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH]. OGILVIE, William - 1913.
de [YUKON -- KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH]. OGILVIE, William
Early days on the Yukon & the story of its gold finds. . . .
de [YUKON -- KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH]. OGILVIE, William
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Ottawa: Thorburn & Abbott, 1913. Thick 8vo. xii, 306 pp. Photo frontisp., 31 plates (occasional wear & creasting at fore-edges). Red publisher’s cloth, borders embossed in blind, gilt lettering front cover & spine (minor wear to lower fore-edge, very minor wear & slight bumping to corners, occasional interior light toning), still VG- copy, w/ former ownership markings dated July, 1917 on front pastedown. First edition of this excellent memoir by the author detailing his explorations into the Yukon-Alaska Territories transported by canoes, talking with miners, and whose reports were some of the first to report the vast mineral wealth in the territories. Ogilvie (1849-1912), marked the Canada-Alaska boundary, mapped the city of Dawson, and was present when the gold strike on Rabbit Creek in 1896 launched the Klondike Gold Rush. See: Ricks, p. 164; Wickersham, 6784.
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- Palabras clave Klondike Gold Rush, Yukon, Canada, Canadiana, Travel, Exploration, Canoes, Canoeing, Surveys, surveying, Arctic, Alaska, Alaskana, Yukon Territory, Mineralogy, Memoirs, Biography, William Ogilvie