Gold Rush in the Klondike: A Woman's Journey in 1898-1899

When Josephine Knowles left for the Klondike gold fields with her husband in 1898, she didn’t know she would be facing a constant battle with cold, disease, malnutrition, and the ever-present possibility of death. With quiet determination, she resolved to survive, to endure each fresh hardship without complaint, and to be of service to the community around her. “Gold Rush in the Klondike” is Knowles’s true story of her year in the Yukon territory, a revealing, never-before-published persona...