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001 2009007969
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008 090223r20091974akuabf b s001 0 eng
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020 $a9781602230545 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a1602230544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn263994273
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050 00 $aF931$b.H86 2009
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100 1 $aHunt, William R.
245 10 $aNorth of 53° :$bthe wild days of the Alaska-Yukon mining frontier, 1870-1914 /$cWilliam R. Hunt.
246 3 $aNorth of 53[degree symbol]
250 $aPbk. ed.
260 $aFairbanks :$bUniversity of Alaska Press,$c2009.
300 $axvi, 328 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
500 $aPreviously published: New York : Macmillian, 1974.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [297]-321) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- I. Early days on the Yukon -- 1. Opening the land -- 2. Early trading -- 3. Mining -- 4. Forty Mile -- 5. Circle, 1893-96 -- II. The Klondike era -- 6. Seattle gets the news -- 7. Skagway and Soapy Smith -- 8. Chilkoot and White passes -- 9. Army help and Arctic fraud -- 10. Yukon voyage -- 11. Glacier madness -- 12. Overland and river routes -- 13. Dawson City -- 14. Soldiers, sailors, and settlers on the Yukon -- III. Nome, Fairbanks, and other Alaskan camps -- 15. Nome: the American Klondike, 1899 -- 16. The turbulent scene, 1900 -- 17. Lawless camp: Nome in 1900-1901 -- 18. Judge Wickersham in Eagle and Nome -- 19. The founding of Fairbanks -- 20. Tanana Valley style -- 21. Founder-Swindler Barnette of Fairbanks -- 22. Restless camps and busy trails -- 23. Soldier on the Yukon -- 24. High rollers and their recreations -- 25. Settling down: George Pilcher, Will Ballou, and the Lomens -- 26. The Guggenheims come to Alaska -- 27. Other camps -- IV. The different frontier? -- 28. Law and order -- 29. The U.S. government's role in Alaska -- 30. Natives and the mining frontier -- 31. Northern Journalism -- 32. Labor strife -- 33. James Wickersham and Gold land Politics -- 34. The literary Frontier -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
651 0 $aKlondike River Valley (Yukon)$xGold discoveries.
651 0 $aAlaska$xHistory$y1867-1959.
651 0 $aYukon$xHistory.