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 winter. He hiked out to the claims on Bonanza and Eldorado, and he poked his camera into the banks and bars and bordellos in Dawson. He rode a paddle-wheel steamer down the Yukon to the Bering and was on the dark sands of the beach at Home when the prospectors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295951877
• ISBN13: 9780295951874
• Release Date: February 1972
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 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.