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  • The Nature of Gold

  • An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
  • By: Kathryn Morse
  • Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
  • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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Summary

In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging setting. Ever since that time, the Klondike Gold Rush - especially as portrayed in photographs of long lines of gold seekers marching up Chilkoot Pass - has had a hold on the popular imagination.

In this first environmental history of the Klondike gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America’s transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural laborers across the country. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times.

The book is published by University of Washington Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

“A tour de force of modern scholarship.” (Pacific Northwest Quarterly)

©2003 University of Washington Press (P)2021 Redwood Audiobooks
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