GOLD AT FORTYMILE CREEK : early days in the Yukon

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1994. Book. Fine. Paperbound. First Edition. pict. paper, pp.,xv, 200, illustrated, CONTENTS: 1. Early Days: The First Gold-Seekers Arrive -- 2. The Chilkoot Pass and Early Transportation -- 3. Early Developments on the Yukon River -- 4. The Miners' Code -- 5. The Fortymile Stampede -- 6. Strangers in a Strange Land -- 7. Years of Change -- 8. Forty Mile: Anatomy of a Gold Rush Town -- 9. The Arrival of the North-West Mounted Police -- 10. Death of the Miners' Committee - 11. Circle: The Largest Log City in the World -- 12. The Discovery of Gold in the Klondike -- 13. Epilogue -- App. A: Mining Methods and Terms -- App. B: Roll Call: Names of the Early Yukon Pioneers., Gold at Fortymile Creek tells the story of the search for gold in the Yukon before the great Klondike gold rush. Michael Gates writes about the life and times of the early pioneers, who suffered unimaginable hardships in search of the big strike. It is a story about survival and adversity, life and death, good times and bad on one of the harshest, most formidable frontiers in the world. The book, based on the accounts of dozens of prospectors, follows the first gold-seekers from their arrival in 1873 until the stampede to the Klondike in 1896 ( from the back wrap) Size: 8 vo,..