Publication: Edgewood Publishing Company, 1897, N P
First edition. 8vo. Tan pictorial cloth with titles in gilt on the front cover with designs and spine titles in dark brown, decorated front and rear endpapers, xiv [2], 15 - 487 pp., frontispiece, introduction, illustrated, plates, 16" x 21" color folded map laid-in, which is usually missing. Introduction by Hon. Henry W. Elliott, Agent of the U. S. Government for many years in Alaska. Of this well-written work. Kururz says: "Ingersole, a professional writer, capitalized on the Klondike discovery, and provided one of the earliest and most eloquent synopses of the stampede." "This book features chapters on the first arrival of the gold ships at San Francisco and Seattle in July, 1897; profiles of the first Klondike kings; and notes on the Yukon placers, various routes, outfits, mining camps, and Alaskan gold mines, and on the marketing, smelting, assaying, and coining of gold." Page edges lightly but uniformly tanned, minor to light wear to the spine ends and corners, else a very good clean and tight copy. From the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz.
Inventory Number: 53150