Minter, amateur historian, documentary filmmakers, and former vice president of the White Pass and Yukon Corporation, narrates an exciting story of the discovery of the White Pass, the early days of Skagway, the Yukon gold strike, and the construction of the railway from Skagway through the White Pass to Whitehorse. His work is lent authority by use of unpublished papers, oral history interviews, government documents, newspaper sources, and published secondary works. The volume covers the years from 1887 to the time of the completion of the railroad in the summer of 1900, and centers on Skagway and the White Pass. Minter does a fine job of bringing his characters to life, capturing the hardships of railroad construction, especially indescribing how the railway builders overcame great difficuties, but he has little that is of much importance for scholars. His story is good; his maps (7) and pictures (82) are excellent, but this book will mainly interest railroad enthusiasts and those with an interest in the history of the north country.-E.D. Odom, North Texas State University