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Exhibit: Klondike Gold Rush – The Perilous Journey North

Special Collections has outstanding Klondike photographs, newspapers/periodicals, guidebooks/maps, video recordings, fiction and non-fiction. This is only a selection of the gold rush materials at the U.W. Libraries.

Photographs

Collections linked below are available online on the UW Libraries Digital Collections website. All of these collections may be researched in Special Collections during regular business hours.

Newspapers/Periodicals

The Klondike Nugget 1898-1903
Special Collections Folio: 979.905 KL
Klondike News April 1, 1898
Special Collections Oversize: F931 .K66
New York Journal Klondike Edition August 1, 1898
Special Collections Folio: 979.9 N42k
The Cosmopolitan
Suzzallo Periodicals Stacks: 051 COS
Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly
Auxiliary Stacks: 051 AM
Harper’s Weekly
Microforms/Newspapers Collection: Microfilm A6619
Overland Monthly
Suzzallo Periodicals Stacks: 051 OV
The Nation
Suzzallo Periodicals: 051 N

Guidebooks/Maps

Coolidge, Louis Arthur. Klondike and the Yukon Country. . . . Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1897.
Special Collections PNW: 979.8 C77k

Harris, A. C. Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields. . . . Chicago: Monroe Book Co., 1897.
Special Collections PNW: F931 .H37 1897b
Other versions available: see library catalog.

Ingersoll, Ernest. In Richest Alaska and the Gold Fields of the Klondike. . . Edgewood, 1897.
Special Collections PNW: 979.8 In4i1e
Other versions available: see library catalog.

Klondike: The Chicago Record’s Book for Gold Seekers. Chicago: Monroe Book Co., 1897.

Ladue, Joseph. Klondyke Facts. . . . New York: American Technical Book Co., 1897.

Lugrin, Charles Henry. Yukon Gold Fields. . . . Victoria: Colonist Printing and Publishing Co., 1897.

Map-Guide, Seattle to Dawson. . . . Seattle: Humes, Lysons and Sallee, 1897.

Official Guide to the Klondyke Country and the Gold Fields of Alaska. . . . Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1897.

Video Recordings

Gold Rush Memories. London: BBC, 1996.
Special Collections Reference: Videorecord SPE-74
Klondike Fever. Seattle: KCTS-9 and DCI Communications, 1996.
Special Collections Reference: Videorecord SPE-55
The Rush for Gold in the Klondike. Greystone Communications/Arts and Entertainment Network, 1994.
Special Collections Reference: Videorecord SPE-53

Fiction

Garland, Hamlin. The Trail of the Goldseekers: A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse. New York and London: Macmillan, 1899.
Special Collections PNW: 979.8 G18
London, Jack. The Faith of Men and Other Stories. New York: The Regent Press, 1904.
Special Collections PNW: 979.9 L84f
Other versions available: see library catalog.
—. Burning Daylight. New York: M. A. Donahue, 1910.
Suzzallo General Stacks: PS3523.O46 B8 1910
Other versions available: see library catalog.
—. Smoke Bellew. New York: The Century Co., 1912.
Special Collections PNW: 979.9 L84s
Other versions available: see library catalog.
—. The Son of the Wolf. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1900.
Special Collections PNW: 979.9 L84so
Other versions available: see library catalog.
MacDonald, Alexander. The White Trail: A Story of the Early Days of the Klondike. New York: H.M. Caldwell, 1908.
Special Collections PNW: 979.9 M14w 1908
Other versions available: see library catalog.
Michener, James A. Journey. New York: Random House, 1989.
Suzzallo General Stacks: PS3525.I19 J68 1989
Service, Robert. The Trail of ’98: A Northland Romance. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1910.
Special Collections PNW: 979.9 Se6t
—. Ballads of a Cheechako. Philadelphia: Edward Stern and Co., Inc., 1910.
Suzzallo General Stacks: PR6037.E72 B3
Special Collections PNW: 979.9 Se6ba
—. Songs of a Sourdough. Toronto: William Briggs, 1909.
Suzzallo General Stacks: PR6037.E72 S5 1909
Other versions available: see library catalog.

Non-Fiction

Berton, Pierre. The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Suzzallo General Stacks; Undergraduate General Stacks: 971.21 B462k
Friesen, Richard J. The Chilkoot Pass and the Great Gold Rush of 1898. Ottawa: National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada, Environment Canada, 1981.
Suzzallo General Stacks: F1019 .H57 no.48
Other versions available: see library catalog.
Konopa, Charles. A Bibliography of the Klondike Gold Rush. Seattle: U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, Seattle Unit, 1979.
Special Collections PNW: Z1392 Y9 K65
Mayer, Melanie J. Klondike Women: True Tales of the 1897-1898 Gold Rush. Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1989.
Suzzallo General Stacks; Special Collections PNW: F1095.K5 M29 1989
Morgan, Murray. One Man’s Gold Rush: A Klondike Album. Photog. By E.A. Hegg. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1967.
Suzzallo General Stacks; Special Collections PNW; Special Collections Reference; Undergraduate General Stacks: F909 .M82
Neufeld, David and Frank Norris. Chilkoot Trail: Heritage Route to the Klondike. Whitehorse, Yukon: Lost Moose, 1996.
Special Collections PNW: F1095.K5 N482 1996

Internet

Klondike Gold Rush: The Perilous Journey North
http://www.lib.uw.edu/specialcollections/collections/exhibits/klondike/
Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park
http://www.nps.gov/klgo/