The Official Guide to the Klondyke Country and the Gold Fields of Alaska

Though the California gold rush of 1849 is perhaps the most well-known, a major strike along the Klondike River in 1896 sparked one of the largest gold rushes in the history of North America. An estimated 100,000 prospectors flooded the Klondike region, located in the Yukon in northwestern Canada. This book, published in 1897, gave readers “authentic instructions” on how to reach Klondike, a remote region accessible only via the Yukon River. With full-page maps and photographs in addition to the text, this book lived up to its claim of being an “exhaustive collection of every known information necessary to a full realization of the immense resources of the gold fields of Alaska…”