Teacher, traveler, naturalist
and writer, the author spent 20 years working and traveling
in Alaska and Canada’s Yukon Territory. His work
was mostly about showing visitors the highlights of
the far north, and telling them about its natural history
as well as the history of its people. That history began
thousands of years ago with the first Native American
migrations from Asia. It also included stories about
the search for gold. The most exciting of these was
the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 and ‘98.
Talking with “old-timers,” studying the
history of that great rush for gold, taking visitors
to see the Klondike up close, and leading them to understandings
and discoveries of their own, has provided the author
with far more than the satisfaction of doing a job as
well as he could; it also gave him a sense of the hardships
those early Argonauts suffered through more than a hundred
years ago.
Writing this series about KLONDIKE GOLD and a young
man who experienced the adventure carries with it the
hope that readers might develop some sense of the excitement
that was part of the great adventure: The Klondike Gold
Rush.
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