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An environmental history of the Klondike Gold Rush

Table of Contents

Foreword by William Cronon

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On the Chilkoot

1/The Culture of Gold

2/The Nature of the Journey

3/The Culture of the Journey

4/The Nature of Gold Mining

5/The Culture of Gold Mining

6/The Nature & Culture of Food

7/The Nature & Culture of Seattle

Conclusion: Nature, Culture, and Value

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Kathryn Morse is assistant professor of history at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Reviews

"Morse demonstrates the dramatic environmental damage created by the gold rush, but she also helps us understand the very real accommodations that miners had to make if they hoped to survive in these far northern landscapes... She is a superb storyteller with a wry sense of humour, a flair for the quirky detail and the revealing anecdote, and a keen appreciation for the tragicomic underside of this famous event."--from the Introduction by William Cronon