One Man?s Gold Rush: A Klondike Album

by Murray Morgan

Book Overview

When Eric A. Hegg rushed north to Alaska in 1897, he as a journeyman photographer, largely self-trained. He forced a sled load of photographic equipment across the coastal mountains in the dead of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295951877
• ISBN13: 9780295951874
• Release Date: February 1972
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.0" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Golden!

This is a wonderful introduction to the gold rush. Murray Morgan does a superb job compiling facts with what was viewed by the photographer, E. A. Hegg. It is a basic pictoral history of the events that Hegg witnessed. I particularly favored the chapter on Chilkoot Pass.