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Gold Rush in the Klondike: A Woman's Journey in 1898-1899
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Gold Rush in the Klondike: A Woman's Journey in 1898-1899 Hardback - 2016

by Josephine Knowles

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When Josephine Knowles left for the Klondike gold fields with her husband in 1898, she didn't know she would be facing a constant battle with cold, disease, malnutrition, and the ever-present possibility of death. With quiet determination, she resolved to survive, to endure each fresh hardship without complaint, and to be of service to the community around her. "Gold Rush in the Klondike" is Knowles's true story of her year in the Yukon territory, a revealing, never-before-published personal memoir of day-to-day life at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Written in a clear, forthright, nineteenth-century style, "Gold Rush in the Klondike" presents terrifying struggles against a hostile environment, picturesque descriptions of an untouched Arctic wilderness, and Knowles's keen observations of men and women on the frontier. A Victorian gentlewoman of refinement, Knowles found herself among swearing, whoring, sometimes violent miners, whom she won over with her grit and compassion. Deciding to never moralize or condemn, Knowles writes frankly of the intense hardships that drove miners into lives of drink and dissipation and the frontier women who were forced to make stark choices between prostitution and starvation. Knowles's adventures include encounters with author Jack London (Knowles firmly disapproved of London's cruel mistreatment of his sled dogs), nursing miners during a typhoid outbreak until she fell ill herself, witnessing savage fights among the miners, dangerous travel through the mountain passes and river rapids of the Yukon, and a daring surreptitious visit to a gambling saloon. Amid all hardships, Knowles formed warm relationships with the mining community, for, as she put it, "All the diseases and other troubles had knitted us into one large family." Illustrated with period photographs, "Gold Rush in the Klondike" is an invaluable historical document of a lost time and place and an admirable portrait of one woman's determination in the face of danger.

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  • Title Gold Rush in the Klondike: A Woman's Journey in 1898-1899
  • Author Josephine Knowles
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Quill Driver Books, Fresno, CA
  • Publication date 2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781610352703 / 161035270X
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 5.98 x 0.87 in (23.01 x 15.19 x 2.21 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Klondike River Valley (Yukon) - Gold, San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016021323
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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