Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9781643589329)

In 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities in the Klondike River region of the Yukon, a mob of economically desperate Americans swarmed north. Within weeks tens of thousands of them were embarking from western ports to throw themselves at some of the harshest terrain on the planet -- in winter yet -- woefully unprepared, with no experience at all in mining or mountaineering. It was a mass delusion that quickly proved deadly: avalanches, shipwrecks, starvation, murder.

Author: Brian Castner
ISBN-10: 1643589326
ISBN-13: 9781643589329
Publisher: Center Point
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2021
Pages: 500
Format: Library Binding
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.75w x 1.18d
Large Print