One Man's Gold Rush. A Klondike Album

Morgan Murray & Hegg E. A.

ISBN 10: 0295951877 / ISBN 13: 9780295951874

Edité par University of Washington Press, 1972

A propos de cet article

216pp, large paperback, VG. Superbly illustrated with photographs by E. A. Hegg, this is a chronicle reflecting the folly and glory of the stampede to the Klondike. Hegg captures the miners at work, miners drunk, miner's womenfolk, miners dead in gunfights, miners in bawdy houses, miners on the trek - reflecting the reality of life of not always an attractive but certainly interesting episode in human history. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: One Man's Gold Rush. A Klondike Album
• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date de parution: 1972
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0295951877
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780295951874
• Reliure: paperback
• Édition: 1972 reprint.

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Synopsis

When Eric A. Hegg rushed north to Alaska in 1897, he as a journeyman photographer, largely self-trained. He forced a sled load of photographic equipment across the coastal mountains in the dead of winter. He hiked out to the claims on Bonanza and Eldorado, and he poked his camera into the banks and bars and bordellos in Dawson. He rode a paddle-wheel steamer down the Yukon to the Bering and was on the dark sands of the beach at Home when the prospectors swirled gravel in their pans and worked their mechanical rockers. Most important, he was there, high on the Chilkoot Pass in the winter of 1897-98, as the dark-clad men climbed antlike up the frozen steps of The Scales under the burden of a year’s supplies.