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Black sand and gold : true Alaska-Yukon gold-rush story / by Ella Lung Martinsen ; as told by her father, Edward B. Lung.

Lung, Edward B. (Edward Burchall), 1862-1956 (Author). Martinsen, Ella Lung. (Added Author).

Summary:

Story of the Klondike Gold Rush from the diaries of Edward Burchall Lung, supplemented with stories, anecdotes, and personal recollections of the author.

Record details

ISBN: 0832301884 (bound)
ISBN: 9780832301889 (bound)
ISBN: 0832301892 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780832301896 (pbk.)
Physical Description: 419 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Portland, Or. : Binfords & Mort, 1974, c1967.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes index (p. 421-424).

Formatted Contents Note:

North Star -- Stampeders of 1897 -- Racing down the Yukon trail -- Riches on the Yukon -- Nothing marked this spot! -- We hit bedrock! -- Rivers of gold -- Glittering fortunes and empty pokes -- Uncertain destiny -- Broken trails -- Stakes were high -- Moosehide stampede -- Big Skookum Gulch stampede -- Ten thousand frenzied men -- Stowaways under the northern lights -- Gold rush reporter-Joaquin Miller -- Men against the ice -- Prisoners of the north -- Pirates and the outcasts -- Footprints in the snow -- Circle of gold -- Call of the Tanana -- Big nuggets and yellow dust -- Twelve moons and a warning arrow -- Ancient channel -- Perilous pass and secret hopes -- Amazing bonanza and Eldorado -- Black sand and gold hill.