Klondike gold rush (31 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. Book.

Paperback. 8vo. Stiff yellow pictorial wrappers. 95pp. Illustrations, maps, line drawings. Near fine. Undated (circa 1970?) facsimile reprint of the Chicago Record Co.'s original 1897 edition of this well-known Klondike Gold Rush how-to. Superb copy.

Condizione: Very Good. 23 pages with some illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years of taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Tall 8vo. 127, [1] pp. Over 100 photos, maps. Illustrated blue cloth, pictorial map endpapers (very slight faint tidemark to for-edges, slight rippling textblock), w/ d.j. cover art by Harold Cramer advertising "Hegg's Views of Alaska" (minor chipping & couple closed tears to spine, minor tidemark to spine fore-edges, edgewear), still VG-/G- copy. First edition issued nearly 20 years before the revised edition, detailing the experiences and photographic enterprise of Eric A. Hegg, and M. Becker as a young woman during the Klondike Gold Rush.…

8vo. [8], 279, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates. Gray cloth, black lettering on spine (minor shelfwear), still VG copy, w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First edition of this excellent biography detailing the life and experiences of the Klondike gold fields and Skagway "Public Enemy" Soapy Smith, and the aftermath of the vigilante's cleaning house immediately following his death.…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Postcard -- tinted photographic print. No date, but circa 1909. Manuscript ink message & address (Meaford, Ontario, Canada), with additional brief notation to picture side. Contemporary US postage stamp with no postal cancel. Moderate toning, edge & corner wear.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Postcard -- tinted photographic print. No date, but circa 1909. Manuscript ink message & address (Meaford, Ontario, Canada), with additional note to photo side. Contemporary US postage stamp with nice clear Dome, Alaska Aug. 1909 postal cancel. Moderate toning, edge & corner wear. …

No Binding. Condizione: Near Fine. Postcard -- tinted photographic print. No date, but circa 1909. Moderate toning, mild edge & corner wear.

Thick 8vo. [4], 419, [5] pp. Photo frntsp., numerous photo illusts. Gray-black cloth, blue lettering front cover & spine, w/ d.j. cover art photo of gold miner (minor scuffing, toning to fore-edges, 1 closed tear upper fore-edge front cover, price-clipped), still NF/VG- copy, w/ former ownership markings on ffep. Alaska Centennial edition of this rousing first-hand account of the early days of the Klondike Gold Rush, much of it drawn from the journals and notes of her father and grand father Edward Lung and Clement Lung, who joined the stampede from Tacoma, WA to the Klondike via Skagway, Chilkoot Pass, and the Yukon River. He met many of the famed Gold Rush figures, including Joaquin Miller, and despite the hardships kept a daily diary used in this memoir. See: Kurutz, Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes, A Descriptive Bibliography, 339b.…

First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Alaska! The Yukon! The Klondike! This volume documents the whole glorious story of the great gold hunt in the last decade of the 19th century, with more than 500 rare photographs. Authors Bronson and Reinhardt document the complete story of the monumental gold discovery in Alaska beginning with the gold-laden schooner Excelsior in San Francisco the summer of 1897 to the wind down of the stampede in 1899. Fully illustrated with more than 500 black and white photographs of the era.…

No Binding. Condizione: Near Fine. Postcard -- tinted photographic print. No date, but circa 1909. Moderate toning, mild edge & corner wear.

Folio. 12 x 13.75 in. pp. 201-[216]. With photo illustrations throughout. Illustrated printed khaki-coloured softcovers (edgewear, chipping to head of spine), still VG copy. First edition, thus, of this installment in the bi-monthly "America, Her Grandeur" released by Union Book during the opening decade of the 20th Century. This installment focuses on the Alaska and Yukon Territory, with excellent gold mining, Alaska & Yukon steamships and railroads, and more. Although undated, the work does specifically mention that the Tenana Railroad will be started in 1905, and that the gold rush had just recently launched with most miners trekking into the Cleary, Fairbanks and Ester Creeks in the Fall of 1903. Worldcat locates 3 copies (U of GA, Clarke Hist. Lib., UTX Austin).…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Postcard -- tinted photographic print, folds out to double postcard size with panoramic view. Mild moisture ripple. Moderate fading, toning, mild edge & corner wear. Handwritten note to photo side.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Postcard -- tinted photographic print. No date, but circa 1909. Manuscript ink message & address (Meaford, Ontario, Canada). Contemporary US postage stamp with nice clear Dome, Alaska Aug. 1909 postal cancel. Moderate toning, edge & corner wear.

8vo. 281, [1] pp. With photo frontisp., photo plates, plates, illustrations, historiated initials. Pictorial blue publisher's cloth, cover art in gilt, silver & red of musher on an iceflow, gilt lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing), still VG bright copy, from the library of former California State Librarian, Gary Kurutz, and Joseph L[uke] Janulaw (1893-1937), a Los Angeles, CA fireman, w/ ownership markings on front pastedown. First edition of this sensationalistic Klondike gold rush memoir recounting the experiences of 18 gold seekers from the YMCA setting out from New York Feb. 1, 1897. After voyaging on a condemned brigantine with a drunken captain, they purportedly attempted the Malaspina Glacier trek to the gold fields, traversing from Yakutat Bay across the Wrangell-St. Elias range, and dropping into the headwaters of the Tanana and Yukon Rivers. The absorbing tale is filled with contradictions as it relates the loss of three into ice crevasses, madness while wintering in a cabin, starving retreat across icefields, and finally rescue by a passing revenue cutter. See: Terrence Cole, Klondike Literature: These Alaska Gold Rush Tales Share a Prominent Characteristic with the Region's Mountainous Terrain -- They are Very Tall., Columbia Magazine, WHS (2008, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 9-16); Kurutz, Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes, A Descriptive Bibliography, 172.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. 8vo. Pp. 296. Frontis. b&w photos. Illustrated with numerous b&w photos on coated paper, line drawings in the text and a three-color foldout map of North America tipped in at the front. Red publisher's cloth with titles and illustration in gilt and black. Spine darkened, light soiling to covers, leaves toned and head edge foxed, foldout map lower edge crimped. In addition to presenting "Vivid Descriptions and Thrilling Experiences," the title page claims this is "the most complete and thoroughly exhaustive collection of every known information necessary to a full realization of the immense resources of the gold fields of Alaska and replete with authentic instructions regarding how to get there, when to go, and what to do when the new Eldorado of the Great Northwest is reached." Verso of the North America map has smaller black-line maps of North American Transportation Co. 1897 Alaska and steamer routes, Juneau to Lewes river, Yukon River and Tributaries, Klondyke River, 1896 Alaska gold fields, and Northwest gold fields. SMITH: 7533.…

A long 1900 letter from Frank S. Bell in Dawson, written shortly before navigation closed for the winter. Bell explains that if he does not write at once, he may not be able to send another letter for quite a while: "as the time is short before the boats stop running I will have to write tonight or I will not be able to send a letter for a month or six weeks, for we can not send out or receive any mail after the boats tie up for the winter, until the river freezes sufficiently hard to make it safe for the dog teams." Bell writes from an unfinished cabin; he and his companions had spent the day carrying in fifteen cords of wood, and still needed to prepare the cabin for winter: "The boys have gone to bed to get warm. I have drawn a box up to the stove for a table, filled the stove full of wood and am now very comfortably fixed for writing. We have not yet got our cabin lined for winter, so it gets pretty cold nights and mornings." He gives a good account of Dawson under Canadian police regulation. Sunday labor required a permit, public houses were closed, gambling was allowed only if conducted fairly, and "sure thing games" were not permitted: "It is against the law here to work on Sunday without getting a permit & if the police catch you at it they take you in, the police regulations are very strict, almost too much so sometimes, but then it makes Dawson a pretty orderly place to all outside appearances. All gambling must be done on the square, no sure thing games are permitted." Bell notes that Dawson, where "Saloons & all public houses are closed on Sunday," is a "much more orderly town than it would be if it were on the American side." The letter also anticipates further gold rushes in Alaska, likely the Fairbanks rush as Bell mentions activity in "Tanana country": "I think there will be a stampede into the Tanana country this winter & next spring; prospectors have been in there this summer and staked some claims, but there was no way to get provision in there until the snow comes, when they can sled it in with dogs [.] We may go down in the spring if we make money enough this winter for a grub stake." Bell is also unusually reflective about the psychology of the Klondike. He calls this his "last chase," but immediately admits the pull of the country: "There is a fascination about this Klondike country. People that leave here & go outside, only remain away a short time before they want to get back. There is always that ripple of excitement & any day may bring tidings of another rich discovery somewhere. Everyone is here for the one purpose, to get rich quick." He closes with practical comments on Dawson travel, hospitals, trained nurses, and his hope to make enough money to enter business in Seattle. A good Dawson letter from the late Klondike period, with content on winter travel and mail, cabin life, Canadian police regulation, gambling, Sunday laws, theaters, hospitals, Seattle and Skagway travel, and coming gold rushes. .…

8vo. [6], 359, [1] pp. Frontisp. map, numerous photo plates. Green publisher's cloth, black lettering (slight shelfwear, slight foxing & dustsoiling fore-edges), w/ d.j. plain brown paper, w/ banner title in red & black across upper fore-edge & spine, printer's imprint at foot of spine (slight shelfwear), NF/NF copy. First edition of this fascinating account by one of the original Klondike sourdoughs who went with a party of 10 in 1898, providing detailed accounts of the early miners, those lost in avalanches on the Chilkoot Trail, the amount of supplies needed, and more. Robertson recounts his life before the Klondike as a champion bicycle racer, along with describing hockey matches and skiing competitions in Dawson in 1898 and 1899. This work was compiled according to the author to "attract capitalists to the Yukon Territory." Scarce in original dustjacket. Kurutz, Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes, A Descriptive Bibliography, 498.…

A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket . W.H.T. Olive's memoir is his record of the year he spent as manager of the boats for the Bennett Lake & Klondyke Navigation Company in the Yukon Gold Rush of 1898. In the untamed North, where travellers had only one thing on their minds, Gold! Olive's day-to-day life was nothing but extraordinary. He acted as onboard diplomat for both seasoned prospectors and greenhorns, shot the White Horse Rapids, and in addition to passengers and their provisions, was responsible for two all-important kinds of shipment: mail and liquor. His adventures included rescuing damsels in distress, guiding his employer, the architect Frank Rattenbury, through a disastrous, mosquito-infested expedition, and defending his strongbox at gunpoint from thieves. Sam Steele, of the North West Mounted Police, William Ogilvie, first commissioner of the Yukon, Machine-gun Joe Boyle, and the notorious gangster Soapy Smith all make an appearance here. Olive's account of his adventures is complemented by his fond remembrance of the sourdoughs on the trail he met during this short but intense period in history. First Printing of the First Canadian Edition.…

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.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards, with some neat professional restoration to spine, corners, and hinges. Some toning and foxing to text; old owner's armorial bookplate inside front cover. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.…

8vo. 500, [7] pp., plus 26 pp. publisher's illustrated advertisements. Over 50 photo plates, 4 maps (2 large folding (recto & verso)), text illustrations. Red pebbled publisher's cloth, black lettering & decorated border front cover, gilt & black lettering on spine (minor edgewear, rubbing, ownership stamps & writing on title), still VG copy, from the library of former California State Librarian, Gary Kurutz. First edition, thus, of this expanded edition of Gosnell's (1860-1931) noted British Columbia Year Book, and was originally self-published by first British Columbia Legislative Librarian, and the first Provincial Archivist. Unlike the initial print run for this publication which consisted of only 216 pages, this Year Book in reaction to the Klondike Gold Rush excitement expanded with a section on "The Canadian Yukon" with notes drawn from William Ogilvie, article by H. Bratnober, additional maps, and even includes a section on the "Routes into Klondyke." Also featured are numerous printed photos documenting stampeders on their way into the golden rivers and streams of the North. See: Kurutz, Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes, A Descriptive Bibliography, 211c. …

Atlas folio. 14.5 x 21.5 in. 36 pp. With lithographed photos, text woodcut illustrations throughout (including 1 double-page panoramic birds-eye). Lithographed softcovers, front cover art w/ gold-tinted embellishments of The Largest Gold Nugget discovered by George W. Carmack, from No. 8 El Dorado, map on back cover execured by Warren C. Wilkins of the gold stikes in the Yukon (chipping, edgewear, some scuffing, closed tear neatly repaired, rebacked), still VG- copy from the library of Gary Kurutz. First Shorey Book's edition of this famed Klondike gold rush promotional magazine originally published in Dawson, N.W.T. & San Francisco, CA which was projected to be published quarterly, however Moore, and his partners Charles Meadows, & Wilkins were later sued in Nov., 1898, and appear to have been driven out of business in the Yukon. The impossibly scarce original publication issued April 1st, 1898 touted all of the major gold strikes heretofore made in the Alaska-Yukon Territories, the potential for land development, nicely illustrated with photographs, and copies were embellished with gold ink arching over mushers and gold miners. The last copy to appear at auction was in 1969 in the famed Streeter sale (3586), and the copy used to create this fine lithographed reproduction was oend by Dorothy Pattinson of Fairbanks, AK who at the time had loaned it to the Pullen Alaska Museum's Klondike Exhibit at the Seattle Center Food Circus balcony, on the grounds of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. Worldcat locates 9 copies of the Shorey facsimile (U of Victoria, WI Historical Soc., BLM, Kenai Peninsula, U of AK, CWU, EWU, Western, U of Alberta); The legal case documents spelling the demise of Messers. Moore, Meadows & Wilkins are held by the Huntington Library, HM 27914; Not in Kurutz, Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Half-year run bound in original marbled boards, rebacked in leather. Handling and some staining to fore-edge of text. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome volume. Spectacular illustrations, including numerous fold-outs on the Diamond Jubilee; a good deal including illustrations of the Klondike. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Book.…

Condizione: Near Fine. Sheet music issued at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush, capitalizing directly on the surge of public interest following the discoveries in the Yukon in 1896?1897. The lithographed title page, signed in style by Robert Teller, shows a dramatic scene of prospectors working a gold deposit in the mountains, with two miners in the foreground bent over a pile of freshly uncovered gold, tools in hand. Theodore August Metz was a German-born musician trained on violin in Hanover who emigrated to the United States and worked various trades before establishing himself as a bandleader and composer in Chicago?s late 19th-century popular music scene. He achieved national prominence with ?There?ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight? (1896?97), a widely performed marching tune that became especially popular during the Spanish-American War and in minstrel and touring band repertories. OCLC 726910235, locating a single copy at the Levy Collection. Covers detached, contents complete, good, with lithographed cover in particularly bright and attractive condition. Folio sheet music, complete. Illustrated color lithograph title page by Robert Teller.…

Folio. 10 x 14 in. [2], 63, [3] pp. With photo illustrations throughout in colour and black & white, plan of Vancouver on last leaf. Textured purple-coloured softcovers, decorative silver lettering stamped on front cover, yapp fore-edges (minor sunning to front cover, minor creasing, curling front cover, edgewear), still a VG- copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce and lavishly illustrated guidebook promoting Vancouver & Victoria, B.C. as the primary outfitting stations for the Klondike Gold Rush. Photos depict the military contingent departing to police and restore order in the gold country, and even features an interview with F.M. Rattenbury advocating the coastal route to the Klondike via the Chilkoot and White Passes. Many of the photographs depict miners on the trail, the Canadian customs house at Chilkoot Pass, and Dawson City. Worldcat locates 5 copies (Yale, UBC, Toronto, Bancroft, Canadian Centre for Architecture); See: Kurutz, Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes, A Descriptive Bibliography, 480.…

An inscribed copy of what Kurutz calls "one of the most dramatic and riveting recollections that can be found in the literature of the Alaska gold rushes." The text recounts trials and tribulations while lost in the wilderness of Alaska's Seward peninsula from July through August 1900, where the author nearly starved to death. Written in Teller, Alaska, in the months during his recovery from his near-death experience, the author self-published his story nine years later. This copy was inscribed by the author two decades after the events described: "With the most pleasant recollections of old times, I remain your friend the author Watsonville, May 23rd 1921." James Hall was a lawyer from Watsonville, California, practicing in San Francisco. In early 1900, a friend asked Hall to accompany him to the gold fields of Alaska, and after some consideration, Hall decided to try his luck. After some preparation and an uneventful journey by steamboat and foot to Teller, Alaska, Hall was asked in July to accompany some men on a four-day journey to look at a quartz prospect that could be rich with gold. During a mountain climb, Hall was separated from the other members of his team in the fog, becoming hopelessly lost. Thus began Hall's sixty-seven-day journey in the Alaskan wilderness, subsisting on water, roots, and berries. This eminently readable narrative takes the reader through the Alaskan wilderness as the author tries to return to Teller without a compass or food. Over two months later, Hall is found by some young prospectors who save him from starvation and bring him back to the camp, where he wrote this article and worked briefly with a doctor to administer to other poor, injured prospectors. Hall eventually returned to California in 1901. The illustrations show Hall in black-and-white photographs both before and after his arduous journey. The text of Hall's journey is followed by four affidavits vouching for Hall's honesty, a nine-page description of Inuit culture, life in Nome, and his stories of prospectors. An inscribed copy of this entertaining and enlightening Klondike classic. KURUTZ, KLONDIKE 229. LINGENFELTER AK:729. Light blue publisher's cloth, titles stamped in black on front board. Light soiling and shelf wear, starts to front hinge. Faint toning to margins and light offsetting to endpapers, otherwise clean internally. Inscribed in ink by the author on front free endpaper. A very good copy.…

A very interesting pair of typed letters from a young man in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. The anonymous author wrote these two letters to his parents, describing his journey overland and by water to the Birch Creek mining district, his experiences mining for gold, and his decision to go into business as a merchant. The letters are written in a detailed style that indicates an educated author. They include three manuscript sketches showing the routes traversed in Alaska and provide a great deal of information about the writer's experiences in the Klondike. These letters are typed, but they were likely originally handwritten by the author, who later typed them (and included his manuscripts maps and sketch) in order to send them to his family when he arrived in Seattle or San Francisco. The letter dated Nov. 10 begins with a description of the writer's boat journey from Juneau to Dyea (actually before the discovery of gold around Dyea was widely announced), which was a popular disembarkation point for the Chilkoot Trail to Dawson City, a center of the gold rush. He arrived at Dyea on April 23 and notes that "dinner at the Dyea post was the last square meal I have had up to the present date (November 10)." After dinner he loaded his equipment on horses for the journey inland: "My outfit consisted of about 1000 lbs. of provisions, guns, amunition [sic], tools for boat building, a whip-saw, jack-plane, cross-cut saw, hand saw, rip saw, hatchet hammer draw knife, brace and bits, square, etc. and clothing, blankets, tent, sheet-iron stone, and, in fact, I think I had about every thing that ever went down the Yukon. Altogether my outfit weighed about 1,302 pounds, which is much more than is usually taken into the interior." The author spent the next several days transporting his provisions between Dyea and Lake Linderman, and he includes in his letter a sketch of the route from Dyea through the valley to the lake (noting several camps along the way), as well as a sketch of his sled. The second letter, dated Feb. 17, 1897, was written on board the steamer Al Ki, between Juneau and Seattle. He continues the narrative of his trip inland, explaining that he arrived at Lake Linderman on May 14. A month later, on June 14, the author and a partner, their canoe loaded with provisions, departed for Circle City, which they reached on June 29. There they stored most of their provisions and headed for the mines in the Birch Creek region. Mining was at its height in the middle of the summer, but rather than seek out a claim on their own, the author and his companion, Jim Wishard, decided to work for other miners, earning some $10 a day. He describes working at mining from 7 p.m. until 6 a.m., the long days making the task of working at night possible. In August the author bought a claim in the Harrison Creek region, but decided to forego mining in favor of establishing himself as a merchant: "From what I could see the miners are poorly supplied with food by the two companies, and there is always a great demand for luxuries; that is, something out of the ordinary, and even the necessaries of life. I made up my mind last summer that I could do as well bringing in some food - in other words, being something of a merchant - as in any other way to start, and having a good knowledge of the country, and keeping my eyes open, I would undoubtedly have many good chances for speculation. It is a conceded fact that one cannot lose money taking in such an outfit. Everything brings in an average profit of 400 per cent., over the original cost, and whatever any one has to sell in the 'grub' line is in demand." The author then describes his construction of a small cabin in Circle City, and his decision soon afterward to leave Alaska for the winter. He describes the trip to Dyea, undertaken in January, and the hardships of winter overland travel in Alaska. Included are some very practical tips: "In crossing water when it is thirty or forty degrees below zero, one should dip his moccasins into the water very quickly, taking them out before the moccasin is wet through. They will then freeze in a mass on your feet, and will serve the same purpose as rubber boots. You can then walk right through water, though I would not advise any one to tempt Providence too much." The letter concludes with a description of a recently discovered gold strike called "Bonanza," not far from the Forty Mile camp. The author describes the high hopes around the strike, and includes a manuscript map of the region, indicating the location of a claim in which he himself has invested. He hopes that his mine will bring him some wealth, but reiterates his belief that the way to wealth in the Yukon Gold Rush is by supplying miners with goods, and that he is on his way to Seattle and San Francisco to buy provisions to resell. The Beinecke Library holds what appear to be typed drafts of these same letters, with somewhat more typographical errors and less polished maps, which they attribute to the merchant Cameron C. Burns. We locate no other copies of these letters, nor any published version of the text. A detailed and ephemeral first-hand account of an early Alaska gold-seeker. Stapled at upper edge. Three horizontal folds. Near fine.…

Very good. Light wear along original fold lines. Very slight loss at a few fold intersections. Close left margin. Size 25 x 32.5 Inches. This 1898 Matthew Hendges map of Alaska captures the region near the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Frontier gold rushes are an integral part of American history of the 19th century and, even today, capture the imagination of those hoping to strike it rich. A Closer Look Coverage embraces territorial Alaska as well as adjacent parts of the Yukon, with gold regions highlighted in yellow and 'Gold District' boldly written across central Alaska. An inset of the Klondike (Juneau to Forty Mile Creek) appears in the upper right, with gold discoveries highlighted. Red overprinting notes overland and river routes into the notoriously inaccessible gold region. Red overprinting illustrates the same inland routes on the larger main map of Alaska, along with the 'monthly mail route' from Seattle and the steamer route from San Francisco. Other resource deposits, including coal, silver, copper, platinum, mercury, and oil, are noted. An inset in the lower left depicts the westernmost Aleutian Islands from Seguam Island to Attu. Klondike Gold Rush The Klondike Gold Rush, ignited in 1896, was a frenetic migration of prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in northwestern Canada following the discovery of gold by local miners. This gold rush transformed the landscape and the lives of thousands, as over 100,000 individuals, driven by the allure of wealth, embarked on a grueling journey towards the remote wilderness, facing harsh climates, treacherous terrains, and immense hardships. Despite the arduous conditions, the promise of gold attracted fortune-seekers from around the globe, leading to the near-instant development of Dawson City and leaving a lasting legacy. Gold was discovered near Nome in western Alaska in 1899, and many prospectors left to try their luck in these new goldfields. Boomtown populations dwindled, and gold production peaked in 1903. Today, the legend surrounding the Klondike Gold Rush still beckons tourists. Publication History and Census This map was compiled and drawn by Matthew Hendges under the supervision of Harry King for the General Land Office and printed by the Norris Peters Company in 1898. Well represented in institutional collections. References: Rumsey 6402.001. OCLC 779516367.…

New Official Map of Alaska Showing Also British Columbia with Portions of Northwest Territories, Athabasca, and Alberta, with Routes to the Klondike District in Red.By: Rand McNally & Co.Date: 1897 (dated) ChicagoDimensions: 17 x 23.25 inches (43 x 59 cm)Ascarce map of Alaska published at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush in the Northwest Yukon Territory. The map was published by Rand McNally & Company with the purpose of delineating the various routes (in red) to the Klondike Region from San Francisco, Seattle, Sitka, and Edmonton.The Klondike Gold Rush ran from 1896 when gold was discovered by local miners to 1899 when many prospectors had been unsuccessful and gold was discovered in Nome, which sent many further north, thus beginning the Nome Gold Rush (1899 - 1909). It took roughly one year for word to reach American cities such as San Francisco and Seattle that gold had been discovered in the Klondike and another year for one to make the journey to the Klondike. Prospectors were encouraged to take a years worth of supplies for their journey as there were no railroads in the region and most had to make the arduous journey on foot.Along the various routes sprouted numerous towns and forts that made a good deal of money resupplying prospectors and offering a warm bath, shower, and saloon. Dawson City, the town located within the Klondike Region grew in population from500 in 1896,to approximately 30,000 people by summer 1898. Such rapid growth brought on fires, disease, and inflated prices for basic goods. While some made life-changing fortunes in the Klondike, the vast majority of prospectors left penniless, either homebound or onto their next opportunity in Nome.OCLC locates just one institutionalexample of this mapat the University of Alaska Fairbanks.Condition: This map is in A condition, issued folded, now mostly flat with a few minor tears along the left edge that have been repaired on the verso.Margins are whole on all sides, colors are bright, and the paper is clean.Inventory #119671200 W. 35th Street #425 Chicago, IL 60609 | P: (312) 496 - 3622.…