The Official Guide To The Klondyke Country And The Gold Fields Of Alaska. With The Official Maps

W. B. CONKEY COMPANY

Publication: W B Conkey Company, 1897, Chicago

First edition. 8vo. Color pictorial wrappers, 296 pp., publishers' notice, frontispiece (pictures on both sides), index, maps, illustrated, portraits. Details North American Transportation Company's map of Alaska and route by steamer to the Yukon gold fields along with panels showing maps of three overland routes from Juneau to Lewes River and the gold fields. Promotional blurb on the title page says, "The most complete and thoroughly exhaustive collection of every known formation necessary to a full realization of the immense resources of the gold fields of Alaska, and replete with authentic instructions regarding how to get there, when to go, and what to do when the New Eldorado of the Great Northwest is reached." Spine has been professionally reinforced, small chips and nicks to the margins of the last ten endpapers and fold creases to the front and rear covers else a near very good, bright, tight copy. Housed in a cloth clamshell case with titles stamped in metallic blue ink on the front cover and spine. From the library of former California State Librarian, Gary Kurtuz.

Inventory Number: 53158