Twelve Months In Klondike

ROBERT C. KIRK

Publication: William Heinemann, 1899, London

First edition.12mo. Original red cloth, titles lettered in black on the front cover and in gilt on the spine, xii, 273 pp., illustrated, plates, map. First edition of this 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 lightly rubbed, small stain to fore-edge of front free fly leaf which has transferred to the front pastedown sheet, else an internally clean, very good copy of an uncommon title. From the library of former California State Librarian, Gary Kurutz.

Inventory Number: 53161