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Author:

Jones, Charlotte Foltz.

Title:

Yukon gold : the story of the Klondike Gold Rush / Charlotte Foltz Jones.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Holiday House,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

99 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries--Juvenile literature.
Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-92) and index.

Contents:

America needed a miracle -- Where is the Klondike? -- Yukon before the gold rush -- Discovery -- Tons of gold -- Craziness in Seattle -- Gold fever -- What they took -- Journey begins -- Inside :Passage routes -- Overland routes -- Arriving in Dawson -- Getting the gold -- End of the gold rush.

Summary:

Recounts the quest for gold that took place in the late 1890s in the Klondike region of the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada.

ISBN:

9780823414031 (alk. paper)
0823414035 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

98020977

Locations:

JLPF081 -- Ericson Public Library (Boone)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)