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Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike

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52

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

60/100

Critics

44/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Brian Castner

Publisher:

Doubleday

Date:

April 13, 2021

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 it—including 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.

Kirkus
A tangy tale.