{"product_id":"north-of-53-william-r-hunt-9781602230545","title":"North of 53ｰ: The Wild Days of the Alaska-Yukon Mining Frontier, 1870-1914","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Saints and sinners, whores and housewives, swindlers and laborers alike attempted a hasty adjustment to novel conditions in a land that seemed strange and forbidding,\" writes William R. Hunt in his narrative history of Alaska mining. Hunt offers an exciting anecdotal account that follows hungry prospectors, canny shopkeepers, hopeful hangers-on, and crafty lawyers through the gold mining camps and temporary towns of nineteenth-century Alaska. Hunt has hiked and mined many of the same claims he writes about in the book, and \u003ci\u003eNorth of 53\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rare glimpse into far-flung communities from Skagway to the Yukon to the deep interior of Alaska to the Ididarod and Nome on the Bering Sea. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William R. Hunt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1602230544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781602230545\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Alaska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2009 pg. 78","brand":"William R. Hunt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984521658623,"sku":"9781602230545","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_531dcc32-fbdf-498a-95fd-c756806724d6.jpg?v=1683272786","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/north-of-53-william-r-hunt-9781602230545","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}