Klondike: The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers
Chicago: J.S. Ziegler & Company, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2351335
First edition. Boards heavily rubbed (common with this book for some reason), a few tiny spots on fore edge, endpapers faintly foxed. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked.
xii, 413, [5] pp. Illustrated with 36 plates and 8 maps. Arctic Bibliography 3111: "Information on routes, mining methods, laws, and capital requirements; needed equipment; climate, food, services, Indians, game; life in Dawson and on the trails; a chapter on the history of Alaska and several drawn from earlier Canadian reports on Yukon Territory. Index." From the preface: "Everything which a goldseeker should know that can be placed in type is contained in this book. Every known practical and comtemplated route to all gold fields in the north is fully, comprehensively and minutely described with maps and tables of distances which are absolutely reliable."
Price: $50.00