i purchased this book and one other in self defense when my wife was filling up a five dollar a bag at a nearby library. Its pretty amazing how when the first noise about discovering gold in the Klondike and Alaska occurred in the 1880s-1890s..prospectors arrived in droves and there were no places to buy food or other provisions. In that huge expanse a person might have to travel 500 or a thousand miles to buy them. According to the book the first people to establish stores gave credit to all prospectors..like pay me when you hit gold. And it was a good thing because life might depend on a pound of dried beans or a pound of flour. The prospectors were a strange sort...but in our day of comparative luxury.its hard to imagine what they endured.
When I was about 12, in the 60s, I read a book titled "Klondike Mike". Really good read, and a story of the gold rush and a man who was involved in it from start to finish. It was a first edition which my grandfather had owned. Wish I knew what happened to that copy, as I would love to read it again.
Pierre Burton was one of the most recognized Canadian figures of his time
Author, educator, TV/radio personality, historian
He penned some 50 non fiction books on similar subjects
