Twelve Months In Klondike

ROBERT C. KIRK

Publication: William Heinemann, 1899, London

Later edition.12mo.19 x 12.5 cm. Gray cloth, titles lettered in black on the front cover and spine, xii, 273 pp., illustrated, plates, map. Excellent memoir by one of the first gold rush seekers to enter the Klondike in the Summer of 1897, and "his book is a tour de force of the first year of the stampede." He recounts his trek through Deya, Skagway, the gold fields via the Chilkoot Pass, threat of famine, mining for gold, dance hall women, and profiles of "The Pelly Kid," and "Swiftwater Bill" Gates. Much information is devoted to the Alaskan and Klondike Native American Indigenous Peoples, including their hunting and fishing techniques. Arctic Bibliography 8741 says "Story of the Klondike Gold Rush, 1897, with description of the White and Chilkoot Pass trails, of Dawson, the gold fields, dogs and other means of transportation, the Indians, hunting, fishing, and geographic features." Covers moderately soiled, book slightly cocked, spine darkened, former owner's inked name on front fly leaf, bookseller's small leather label at bottom edge of rear pastedown sheet, else an internally clean, good copy of an uncommon title.

Inventory Number: 39607