Trail to the Klondike

by Don McCune

Book Overview

When the ship Portland steamed into Seattle in the summer of 1897 with more than a ton of gold, it set off an around-the-world fever, launched Seattle as the Queen City of the Northwest, and initiated one of the most extraordinary treks in American history. In the brutally cold winter of 1897-98, 100,000 people, drawn by the glitter of chance and fortune, stampeded north to the gold fields of the Yukon. In 1969-70, Don McCune - for twenty-one years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874221447
• ISBN13: 9780874221442
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Washington State University Press
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.0" x 10.5"