Trail to the Klondike / by Don McCune.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCune, Don.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trails.

History.

Alaska--History--1867-1959.

Alaska.

British Columbia--History.

British Columbia.

Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries.

Klondike River Valley (Yukon).

Trails--Alaska--History--19th century.

Trails--British Columbia--History--19th century.

Alaska--History--1867-1959--Pictorial works.

British Columbia--History--Pictorial works.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 114 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 x 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Pullman : Washington State University Press, [1997]

Summary:

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 writer and narrator of KOMO TV's Emmy Award winning program, Exploration Northwest - retraced the Klondikers' trail with his camera crew, producing five episodes on the gold rush. That experience inspired McCune to write the manuscript for this book, which includes contemporary accounts by stampeders combined with observations by the Exploration Northwest crew of the trail as it appeared more than seventy years after the gold rush. Trail to the Klondike features more than 120 photographs, including evocative images from the most accomplished of the gold rush photographers, Eric Hegg. Hegg's images are paired with those of the McCune crew to provide a "then-and-now" portrait of the Trail to the Klondike.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 114).

ISBN:

0874221439

0874221447

OCLC:

36301332