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By William B. Haskell

An exciting narrative of private reports and adventures within the fabulous gold areas of Alaska and the Klondike, with observations of trip and exploration alongside the Yukon. Portraying the risks, hardships, and privations of a gold-seeker's existence; with a devoted description of existence and scenes in gold mines and camps. together with complete and real details of the nations defined, their underground treasures, how to define them, and so forth. fantastically illustrated with many engravings from fresh images taken at the spot.Dozens of the moment courses to the Klondike that sprang from the presses on the flip of the century may need bannered the textual content above, yet Years within the Klondike was once singularly diversified from these books: the following, writer William B. Haskell instructed the reality, and he instructed it good. In a distinct, fascinating, and poetic sort, Haskell writes of his trek to Alaska's Fortymile and Circle urban within the spring of 1896 previous the Klondike discovery, and recounts his adventures within the gold fields sooner than and after the frenzy of 1897-1898. A willing observer of human nature, Haskell's witty reviews on stipulations within the Yukon Valley are pleasant examining. His gritty and practical account of existence within the north at the eve of the Klondike rush information the large adjustments that happened as soon as the flood of stampeders arrived.Though out of print for almost 100 years, Haskell's autobiography has been an enormous resource for each thorough historical past of the gold rush period some time past century. This re-creation of his memoir, released in commemoration of the gold rush centennial because the 5th quantity within the college of Alaska Press's vintage Reprint sequence, brings again his outstanding eyewitness account of the Klondike stampede. A preface by means of sequence editor Terrence Cole and index accompany the unique textual content and images.  

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26 See page 312. " Everyone who has ever been to Alaska in the summertime can tell stories about the horrific mosquitoes, but no one has ever matched Haskell's poetic depiction of walking through a swarm, like Moses trying to part the Red Sea. "One may hurl a blanket through a cloud of them, but ranks are closed up and the cloud is again intact before the blanket has hit the ground. All day long, and of course in July that means for about twenty-four hours, they are on the alert, always after anything that has blood in its veins.

The effect of such conversation upon a tenderfoot with but a little silver in his pocket, and who was impatient to send comforting news to his far-away home in Vermont, may be imagined. "Roughing it," and "striking it rich," was just my ideal then. I had tried roughing it somewhat, and all I needed was to strike it rich. "Excuse me, gentlemen," I said, slowly turning my chair, and somewhat nervously facing the group, "but I am down this way to see what I can do in a mining country, and I am interested in your talk.

4 Though what became of Haskell after 1898 is not clear apparently he never wrote another book he left an enduring legacy. Haskell's autobiography has been a major source for every thorough history of the gold rush era in the past 3. Seattle Daily Times, January 18, 1898, p. 5. 4. Another authoritative contemporary account of the Klondike gold rush was The Klondike Stampede (1899) by Tappen Adney, a correspondent for Harper's Weekly. Page 19 century, even though his book has actually been out of print for nearly a hundred years.

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