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Gold fever in the North : the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush era : a Gold Rush Centennial exhibition
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- Creator
- Dean Littlepage, guest curator
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Anchorage : Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Municipality of Anchorage, [1997]
- ©1997
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- viii, 40 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 1885267010, 9781885267016
- OCLC
- ocm37923640
- At head of title: Alaska Gold Rush centennial.
- Catalog of the exhibition Gold Fever in the North held May 8-November 9, 1997 at the Anchorage Museum.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 38).
- Map of norther gold discoveries -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Klondidke supply list -- Early years / Jack McQuesten, Father of the Yukon -- To the Klondike!: Avalanche! -- Into Alaska: Nome -- Fairbanks -- Iditarod -- Cook Inlet -- Life in the North: Immigrants among the stampeders -- Miners called her mother -- Gold rush mining: Klondike kings (and one queen) -- Other ways to get rich / Matty Crosby, Iditarod entrepreneur -- By river, rail and trail: White Pass and Yukon route -- Bureaucracy that worked: Government on the gold rush frontier: Allen expedition: A thousand miles on an empty stomach -- Native peoples and the gold rush: Fish camp on the Klondike -- Century later: Legacy of the gold rush era -- Bibliography -- Sources of quotations -- Gold rush timeline