An account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898, told through the individual experiences of the iconic characters who endured itâincluding a young Jack London, Colonel Samuel Steele, notorious gangster Soapy Smith, Skookum Jim, and the hotel entrepreneur Belinda Mulrooney.
What The Reviewers Say
Laurie Unger Skinner,
Library Journal
... compelling account of the Yukon Gold Rush of 1897–98.
Andrew R. Graybill,
The Wall Street Journal
... replete with derring-do, suffering and failure.
Publishers Weekly
Journalist Castner...paints a dramatic and frequently gruesome portrait of the Klondike gold rush.