Through The Yukon Gold Diggings

JOSIAH EDWARD SPURR

Publication: Eastern Publishing Company, 1900, Boston

First edition. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on the front free fly leaf to William Judson Cox(1845-1930), at the time the mining superintendent of the Mollie Gibson Consolidated Mining & Milling Company located in Pitkin County, Colorado. Pictorial cloth, titles stamped in gilt and dark blue ink on the front cover and spine, 276 pp., preface, frontispiece, 24 illustrations from photographs. Spurr's memoir leading the U. S. Geological Survey's first expedition into the Klondike and Alaska to survey the mining camps in American territory, and after traversing the Yukon River, reached Forty Mile, where he details the diggings along American Creek, Circle City, Birch Creek, and Mynook Creek. Kurutz 542 says quoting the author:"The Klondike, too, has been badly lied about. Not one man in twenty who goes there makes more than a bare living, and many have to 'hustle' for that harder than they would at home." This is an ex-library copy complete with the remainder of a library pocket on the rear endpapers, stamp of the Loretto Heights College of Loretta, Colorado on the front endpapers, the title page, and at the margin of a few pages throughout the text, library numbers at the foot of spine, spine panel has been varnished to ensure the numbers remain, and light library address stamp on all three edges, and light wear to the spine ends and corners. Yet this is a bright, tight attractive copy with a clean and tight interior and a solid good plus copy that's ready for daily practical use.

Inventory Number: 51822