The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush

“A lively saga” (New York Times) of the great Alaska gold rush—a story of cold skies and avalanches, con men and gamblers and dance hall girls, grizzly old miners and millionaires

In 1897 a grimy steamer bearing two tons of pure Klondike gold docked in Seattle, immediately triggering a stampede north to Alaska. In his exhilarating The Klondike Fever, Pierre Berton chronicles the incredible succession of events that followed in all their splendid and astonishing folly.

As many as 100,000 a...