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Unknown. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Quality Paperback. Etat : New. First. Live life in the Alaska and the Yukon more than one hundred years ago through my father's diary, which details the hard work, frustrations and horseplay in the development of Guggenheim's mammoth gold dredge mining operation. Ponder his decision to quit a comfortable job as a mining engineer to venture 60 miles east of Dawson City with the King of the Klondike to endure, without fear, the coldest winter on record averaging minus 50 degrees. Question through his words the unsuccessful digging of a mine shaft through frozen ground ending with the comment, ÒApril Fool's Day. We're down 160 feet in the shaft and no gold. April Fools proper-that is what we are. We are up against the fact we can remain no longer. We have no grub.Ó Experience his comical adventures as a bear hunter finally giving up to seek employment at the Kennecott Copper Mine; electing to cross the largest ice fields in North America alone, guided by instinct, with only a woman's robe and a tarp for warmth.…

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. SUBTITLED : ` Recalling a Century-Old Trek to Alaska and the Yukon Territory '. These 320 pages are (mostly) those of John Wesley Gibb - the father of the author. J.W. went north in 1908 and 1909. Read more about : Verde River, Oak Creek Canyon, Henry Clay Work, Twelve-Mile Ditch, Sasco, Red Rock, Tommy Alcock, Skagway, Guggie dredges, Old Kate, Go-Devil, and Whitehorse Rapids. The photographs are both archival and modern. B/W maps as well. Cond : Paper wrapper is gold coloured with black lettering. Front cover (colour) photo is of the Northern Lights. Bright, clean, and crispy - in all aspects. No names nor marks. No creases, no tears. Quote (p. 183) : " We enjoy a good breakfast as guests of Angus Chisholm. Angus proves himself a prince. He puts up a lunch for us for our trip. At 7 a.m. we bid him farewell as we start our return to Dawson. We go to our cabin, hook up the sled dogs and ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. B/W Photographs (illustrateur). …

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 320 pp. "The lifetime story of my father's mining adventures produced from his daily diaries". Illustrated with b&w photos, figures and maps. Bottom front corner lightly curled. A bright clean copy.