Read Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899 Online
Authors: Pierre Berton
Public Documents | |
Canada | Sessional Paper No. 15, 1898: North West Mounted Police Report, 1897 , Ottawa, 1898. |
Sessional Paper No. 38D, 1898: Report of Commissioner J. M. Walsh to Minister of the Interior for 1897 , Ottawa, 1898. | |
Sessional Paper No. 13, 1899: Report of Commissioner J. M. Walsh to Minister of the Interior for 1898 , Ottawa, 1899. | |
Sessional Paper No. 15, 1899: North West Mounted Police Report, Part II: Yukon Territory, 1898 , Ottawa, 1899. | |
Sessional Paper No. 86, 1899: Report of Royal Commission of Enquiry under Mr. William Ogilvie , Ottawa, 1899. | |
Sessional Paper No. 15, 1900: Report of Superintendant A. B. Perry, Commanding NWMP, Yukon Territory , Ottawa, 1900. | |
Sessional Paper No. 33U, 1900: Report of William Ogilvie to Minister of the Interior for 1899 , Ottawa, 1900. | |
Debates of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada , 1898. | |
Dawson, George M. | Report of an Exploration in the Yukon District of 1887, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, 1898. |
United States | |
Abercrombie, Captain W. R. (2nd U.S. Infantry) | Senate Document 1023: 56th Congress, 1st session: Copper River Exploring Expedition, 1898 , A Compilation of Narratives and Explorations in Alaska, and Copper River Exploring Expedition, 1899 , Washington, D.C., 1900. |
Allen, Lieutenant Henry T. (2nd U.S. Cavalry) | Senate Document 1023: Report of a Military Reconnaissance in Alaska Made in 1885 , Washington, D.C., 1900. |
Beardslee, Commander L. A. | Executive Documents of the Senate of the United States, 47th Congress, 1st session: “Report of the Operations of the U.S. Ship Jamestown,” in Affairs in Alaska , Washington, D.C., 1882. |
Dunham, Samuel C. | Bulletin of the Department of Labor: The Alaskan Goldfields , Washington, D.C., 1898. |
Geological Survey | Eighteenth Annual Report , Part 3, Washington, D.C., May 1898. |
Ray, Captain P. H., and Richardson, Lieutenant W. P. (8th U.S. Infantry) | Senate Document 1023: Relief of the Destitute in the Goldfields of Alaska, 1897 , and Relief of the Destitute in the Goldfields of Alaska, 1898 , Washington, D.C., 1900. |
Raymond, Captain Charles W. | Executive Document No. 12 of the Senate of the United States, 42nd Congress, 1st session, Report of a Reconnaissance of the Yukon River, July–September 1869 , Washington, D.C., 1871. |
Richardson, Captain W. P. | Senate Document 1023: Yukon River Exploring Expedition, Alaska, 1899 , Washington, D.C., 1900. |
Schwatka, Lieutenant Frederick | Senate Document 1023: Yukon River Exploring Exepdition, Alaska, 1899 , Washington, D.C., 1900. |
Wells, E. Hazard | Senate Document 1023: Up and Down the Yukon, Alaska, 1897 , Washington, D.C., 1900. |
Newspapers | |
Alaska Journal | Juneau, Alaska, 1893 |
Alaskan | Skagway, Alaska, 1898–99 (scattered copies) |
Alaska Weekly | Seattle, 1923–56 |
Daily Province | Vancouver, 1897–98 |
Examiner | San Francisco, 1898 |
Globe | Toronto, 1897–98 |
Herald | New York, 1897–98 |
Journal | New York, 1897–98 |
Klondike News | San Francisco, April 1, 1898 |
Klondike Nugget | Dawson, Yukon, 1898–1901 |
News | Dawson, Yukon, 1899–1953 |
News , | Dawson, Yukon, 1902 |
Golden Cleanup Edition | |
News | Skagway, Alaska, 1898 (scattered copies) |
Post-Intelligencer | Seattle, 1897–99 |
Press | Dyea, Alaska, 1898 |
Times | Seattle, 1897–99 |
Trail | Dyea, Alaska, 1898 |
Yukon Midnight Sun | Dawson, Yukon, 1898–1900 (incomplete files) |
Yukon Sun Anniversary Number | Dawson, Yukon, September, 1900 |
Published Sources | |
Anon. | All about the Klondike Mines , New York, 1897 (pamphlet). |
Pamphlet, British Columbia Board of Trade, n.p., 1899. | |
Klondike Gold Fields in the Yukon , St. Louis, Mo., 1897 (pamphlet). | |
A Medonte Pioneer and His Famous Son , Orillia, Ont., n.d. (pamphlet). | |
“Seattle’s Menageries,” Harper’s Illustrated Weekly , April 16, 1898. | |
“Seattle to Dawson, A Klondiker’s Diary,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly , May, 1900. | |
Adney, Edwin Tappan | The Klondike Stampede of 1897–98 , New York, 1900. |
Allan, A. A. “Scotty” | Gold, Men and Dogs , New York, 1931. |
Andrews, C. L. | “The Yukon River,” Alaska-Yukon Magazine , March, 1911. |
“Captain William Moore,” Washington Historical Quarterly , Vol. XXI (1930). | |
Wrangell and the Gold of the Cassiar , Seattle, 1937. | |
The Story of Alaska , Caldwell, Idaho, 1938. | |
“Some Notes on the Yukon by Stewart Menzies,” Pacific North West Quarterly , Vol. XXXII (1941). | |
“Facts and Fiction in Alaskan History,” Alaska Life , April, 1942. | |
“Muskeg Trail to Alaska,” Alaska Life , July, 1942. | |
“The Real Soapy Smith,” Alaska Sportsman , November, 1947. | |
Archer, F. A. | A Heroine of the North: The Memoirs of Charlotte |
Selina Bompas , London, 1929. | |
Arestad, Sverre | “Reindeer in Alaska,” Pacific North West Quarterly , April, 1951. |
Armstrong, Major Nevill A.D. | Yukon Yesterdays – Thirty Years of Adventure on the Klondyke , London, 1936. |
Atwell, Monty | “Marc Hanna, Champion of the Chilkoot Trail,” Alaska Sportsman , October, 1963. |
Atwood, Frederick N. | “Dawson Night Life Wasn’t So Tough,” Alaska Life , December, 1941. |
Baird, Andrew | Article, Dawson News , January 15, 1953. Article, Dawson News , September 5, 1953. |
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Banon, Edward Magawly | The Diary of Edward Magawly Banon , Newport, R.I., 1948. |
Barbeau, Marius | Article, Vancouver Province , June 24, 1944. |
“The Poor Man’s Trail,” Canadian Geographical Journal , July, 1934. | |
Beach, Rex | Personal Exposures , New York, 1940. |
Beattie, Kim | Brother, Here’s a Man! The Saga of Klondike Boyle , Toronto, 1940. |
Becker, Ethel Anderson | Klondike ’98 , Portland, Oreg., 1949. |
Beebe, Iola | The True Life Story of Swiftwater Bill Gates , Seattle, 1915. |
Bell, E. Moberly | Flora Shaw , London, 1947. |
Berg, Helen | “The Doll of Dawson,” Alaska Sportsman , February, 1944. |
Berton, Laura Beatrice | I Married the Klondike , Toronto, 1961. |
Berton, Pierre | The Golden Trail , Toronto, 1954. |
The Mysterious North , Toronto, 1956. | |
Black, Mrs. George | My Seventy Years (as told to Elizabeth Bailey Price), New York, 1938. |
Yukon Wild Flowers , Vancouver, n.d. | |
Bowen, Ex-Inspector R. C. | “Dawson Days Recalled,” Scarlet & Gold , 30th edition, 1948. |
Bramble, Charles S. | Klondike: A Manual for Goldseekers , New York, 1897. |
Bride, W. W., and Crisp, W. G. | “Telegraph Creek,” Beaver , March, 1942. |
Brooks, Alfred Hülse | Blazing Alaska’s Trails , Washington, D.C., 1953. |
“The History of Mining in Alaska,” Alaska-Yukon Magazine , May, 1907. | |
Brown, John N. Elliott | University of Toronto Studies: History and Economics , Vol. II, Evolution of the Law of Government in the Yukon Territory , Toronto, 1907. |
Bruce, Miner | Alaska, Its History and Resources, Gold Fields and Scenery , New York, 1899. |
Burns, Walter Noble | Tombstone , Garden City, N.Y., 1929. |
Bush, Sam Stone | “The Rush to the Klondike Goldfields,” Review of Reviews , August, 1897; March, 1898. |
Butler, S. P. | “The Drama of Development,” Harper’s Illustrated Weekly , August 28, 1897. |
Cameron, Alexander | “Reminiscences of a Sourdough,” Magazine Alaska , January, 1938. |
Camsell, Charles | Son of the North , Toronto, 1954. |
Canton, Frank M. | Frontier Trails, The Autobiography of Frank M . Canton , edited by Edward Everett Dale. Norman, Okla., 1966. |
Carmack, George Washington | My Experiences in the Yukon , privately printed by Marguerite Carmack, 1933 (pamphlet). |
Chase, Will H. | The Sourdough Pot , Kansas City, Mo., 1923. |
Reminiscences of Captain Billie Moore , Kansas City, Mo., 1947. | |
Chicago Record | Klondike, the Chicago Record’s Book for Gold-seekers , Philadelphia, 1897. |
Christie, Alice Heyson | “A Sympathetic Journey to the Klondike,” Alaska-Yukon Magazine , May, 1909. |
Clark, Hazel Stewart | “A Man of Honor,” Alaska Sportsman , March, 1958. |
Clausen, C. A., ed . | “Life in the Klondike and Alaska Goldfields,” Norwegian-American Studies and Records , Vol. XVI (1950). |
Cody, H. A. | An Apostle of the North: Memoirs of the Right Reverend William Carpenter Bompas, D.D. , Toronto, 1908. |
Cole, E. L. | “The Deadly Edmonton Trail,” Alaska Sportsman , March, April, May, 1955. |
Collier, William R. and Westrate, Edwin V. | The Reign of Soapy Smith, Monarch of Misrule , Garden City, N.Y., 1937. |
Coolidge, L. A. | Klondike and the Yukon Country , Philadelphia, 1897. |
Craig, Lulu Alice | Glimpses of Sunshine and Shade in the Far North , Cincinnati, 1906. |
Crisp, W. G. | see Bride, W. W. |
Cunynghame, Francis | Lost Trail , London, 1953. |
Curtin, Walter Russell | Yukon Voyage: Unofficial Log of the Steamer Yukoner , Caldwell, Idaho, 1938. |
Dafoe, John W. | Clifford Sifton in Relation to His Times , Toronto, 1931. |
Dalby, Milton A. | The Sea Saga of Dynamite Johnny O’Brien , Toronto, 1933. |
Dale, Edward Everett | see Canton, Frank M. |
Davis, Mary Lee | Sourdough Gold: The Log of a Yukon Adventure , Boston, 1933. |
Uncle Sam’s Attic , Boston, 1930. | |
Davis, Phyllis | Article, Vancouver Province , January 5, 1946. |
Dawson, George M. | “Historical Note on the Events in the Yukon District,” Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada , Vol. II, edited by George M. Wrong, Toronto, 1897. |
Day, Louella | The Tragedy of the Klondike , New York, 1906. |
De Armond, R. N., ed. | ‘Stroller’ White: Tales of a Klondike Newsman , Vancouver, 1969. |
Denison, Merrill | Klondike Mike, An Alaskan Odyssey , New York, 1943. |
De Windt, Harry | Through the Gold Fields of Alaska to Bering Strait , London, 1898. |
My Restless Life , London, 1909. | |
Dietz, Arthur Arnold | Mad Rush for Gold in Frozen North , Los Angeles, 1914. |
Dill, W. S. | The Long Day , Ottawa, 1926. |
Dow, Peter | Alaska: America’s Northern Wonderland , n.p., 1927. |
“The Arctic Trail,” Alaska Sportsman , February–June, 1941. | |
Dunn, Robert | World Alive , New York, 1956. |
Dyer, E. Jerome | The Routes and Mineral Resources of Northwestern Canada , London, 1897. |
Edgar, Major J. H., and Thompson, Norman | Canadian Railway Development , Toronto, 1933. |
Edwards, William Seymour | Into the Yukon , Cincinnati, 1905. |
Elliott, Gordon, ed. | Klondike Cattle Drive: The Journal of Norman Lee , Vancouver, 1960. |
Fetherstonhaugh, R. C. | The Royal Canadian Regiment, 1833–1933 , Montreal, 1936. |
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , New York, 1938. | |
Fitch, George Hamlyn | “The Klondike Mining Camp,” Harper’s Illustrated Weekly , August 7, 1897. |
“Frozen in on the Yukon,” Harper’s Illustrated Weekly , November 20, 1897. | |
Fraser, J. E. | The Gold Fever , British Columbia, 1923. |
Funston, Frederick | “Over the Chilkoot Pass to the Yukon,” Scribner’s Magazine , November, 1896. |
Garland, Hamlin | Trail of the Goldseekers , New York, 1899. |
Garst, Shannon | Jack London, Magnet for Adventure , New York, 1944. |
Gates, Charles M. | “Human Interest Notes on Seattle and the Alaskan Gold Rush,” Pacific North West Quarterly , 1943. |
Gosnell, R. E. | The Year Book of Birtish Columbia, and Manual of Provincial Information to Which is Added a Chapter Containing Much Special Information Respecting the Canadian Yukon and Northern Territory Generally , Victoria, B.C., 1897. |
Graham, Angus | The Golden Grindstone – The Adventures of George M. Mitchell , Toronto, 1935. |
Graves, S. H. | On the White Pass Payroll , Chicago, 1908. |
Green, Kenneth J. | “First Christmas in Skagway,” Alaska Sportsman , December, 1967. |
Griffith, D. E. | “Birth of the Klondike Gold Rush,” Seattle Times Magazine Section , July 13-September 7, 1947. |
Grinnell, Joseph | Gold Hunting in Alaska , Chicago, 1901. |
Hamilton, Walter R. | The Yukon Story , Vancouver, 1964. |
Hamlin, C. H. | Old Times in the Yukon , Los Angeles, 1928. |
Hansen, Einar | “The Pioneer’s Life at Sitka,” Alaska Lije , February, 1940. |
Harris, A.C. | Alaska and the Klondike Goldfields , Chicago, 1897. |
Haskell, William B. | Two Years in the Klondike and Alaska Goldfields , Hartford, Conn., 1898. |
Haverly, Charles | The Klondyke and Fortune by One Who Has Struck It , London, 1897. |
Hayne, M. H. E., and Taylor, H. West | Pioneers of the Klondyke , London, 1897. |
Heilprin, Angelo | Alaska and the Klondike , London, 1899. |
Henderson, Alice P. | The Rainbow’s End: Alaska , New York, 1898. |
Hitchcock, Mary E. | Two Women in the Klondike , New York, 1899. |
Ingersoll, Ernest | Gold Fields of the Klondike and the Wonders of Alaska , New York, 1897. |
Innis, Harold A. | Problems of Staple Production in Canada , Toronto, 1933. |