Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of over thirty thousand people. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush in history. Scurvy, dysentery, frostbite, and starvation stalked all who dared to be in Dawson. And yet the possibilities attracted people from all walks of life—not only prospectors but also newspapermen, bankers, prostitutes, priests, and lawmen. Gold Diggers follows six stampeders—Bill Haskell, a farm boy who hungered for striking gold; Father Judge, a Jesuit priest who aimed to save souls and lives; Belinda Mulrooney, a twenty-four-year-old who became the richest businesswoman in town; Flora Shaw, a journalist who transformed the town’s governance; Sam Steele, the officer who finally established order in the lawless town; and most famously Jack London, who left without gold, but with the stories that would make him a legend. Drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and stories, Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling tale of the gold madness that swept through a continent and changed a landscape and its people forever.
Publishers Weekly To mine the stories of the last great Gold Rush (1896 1899), Gray (Sisters in the Wilderness), who lives in Ottawa, spent three months living in the Canadian Yukon and sifting through the archives there. Gray focuses on diverse individuals whose paths crossed during the Gold Rush days. Recovering from scurvy, novelist Jack London left with a gold mine of stories. Energetic London Times journalist Flora Shaw explored honky-tonk dives after midnight: It was not Flora's world, says Gray. She cast a cool eye on the professional gamblers, the blowsy hookers, the long-nailed barmen... and the throng of boozy miners. Lawman Sam Steele saw the boomtown Dawson City and its 400 prostitutes as simply a hell on earth, gamblers, thieves and the worst kind of womankind, while Father Judge, a gentle Jesuit priest, sought souls rather than gold. At age 25, businesswoman Belinda Mulrooney arrived to get rich and departed a multimillionaire as the mining camp of 400 became a raucous, raunchy city of 30,000 in only two years. Writing about the wildest, noisiest, roughest frontier town, in the middle of the bleakest landscape on the American continent, Gray has hit pay dirt with this hardscrabble history, a vibrant, detailed recreation of the frenzied boomtown of Dawson City. Photos. (Oct.)

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by Charlotte Gray

Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West

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HarperCollins Canada

Basic Civitas Books

Catapult

United States, United States of America

1St Edition, First Edition, PT, 2010

Berkeley, CA, California, 2010

United States, 2010

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Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of more than thirty thousand people. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush in history.Scurvy, dysentery, frostbite, and starvation stalked all who dared to be in Dawson. And yet the possibilities attracted people from all walks of life. Newspapers spread "Klondike fever" around the globe, and the government far away in Ottawa faced a rowdy frontier town desperate for law and order.Gold Diggers is the remarkable story of the Klondike Gold Rush told through the lives of six very different people: the miner William Haskell; the saintly priest Father Judge; the savvy twenty-four-year-old businesswoman Belinda Mulrooney; the imperious British journalist Flora Shaw; spit-and-polish Sam Steele of the Mounties; and most famously the writer Jack London, who left without gold but with the stories that would make him a legend.Brilliantly interweaving their experiences, Charlotte Gray presents a fascinating panorama of a subarctic town where miners, saloon keepers, dance hall girls, preachers, and lawmakers were thrown together at one extraordinary moment in history. Handsomely illustrated with more than sixty original photographs and maps, and drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and stories, the authenticity here is not to be outdone by the immediacy of the storytelling.The gold rush bred its own glittering mythology, but Charlotte Gray has sifted through the legends to offer an unforgettable journey into a world gone mad for wealth."No armchair rambler, the author has visited the territory, and this familiarity comes through in her descriptions of the beauty and terror of the landscape, her keen appreciation of the near---Arctic Circle climate, and her vivid depiction then and now of Dawson City ... A lively, delightful reenactment of a signal era of `Klondike mythology.'"---Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

Gray memorably resuscitates the life of the miners . . . A lively, delightful reenactment of a single era of Klondike mythology. Kirkus Reviews, starred review Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of over thirty thousand people. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush in history. Drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and stories, Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling tale of the gold madness that swept through a continent and changed a landscape and its people forever. In Gold Diggers, she follows six stampedersBill Haskell, a farm boy who hungered for striking gold; Father Judge, a Jesuit priest who aimed to save souls and lives; Belinda Mulrooney, a twenty-four-year-old who became the richest businesswoman in town; Flora Shaw, a journalist who transformed the towns governance; Sam Steele, the officer who finally established order in the lawless town; and most famously Jack London, who left without gold, but with the stories that would make him a legend. Gray has hit pay dirt with this hardscrabble history, a vibrant, detailed recreation of the frenzied boomtown of Dawson City. Publishers Weekly A fascinating, rich account . . . Readers can only be grateful to such a skilled writer and historian as Charlotte Gray to let us go to, feel, smell and wonder at such an astonishing place as Dawson City during the ephemeral gold rush. The Globe and Mail The inspiration for the TV miniseries, Klondike.

Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of over thirty thousand people. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush in history.
Scurvy, dysentery, frostbite, and starvation stalked all who dared to be in Dawson. And yet the possibilities attracted people from all walks of life—not only prospectors but also newspapermen, bankers, prostitutes, priests, and lawmen. Gold Diggers follows six stampeders—Bill Haskell, a farm boy who hungered for striking gold; Father Judge, a Jesuit priest who aimed to save souls and lives; Belinda Mulrooney, a twenty–four–year–old who became the richest businesswoman in town; Flora Shaw, a journalist who transformed the town's governance; Sam Steele, the officer who finally established order in the lawless town; and most famously Jack London, who left without gold, but with the stories that would make him a legend.
Drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and stories, Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling tale of the gold madness that swept through a continent and changed a landscape and its people forever.

Color and chaos
Arctic secrets, June 1896
Bill Haskell's dreams of gold, 1890-1896
Mob justice and wild dogs, June-November, 1896
"Five dollars to the pan, boys!" October 1896-April 1897
Sourdough success, April-June 1897
Mining the miners
Father Judge's flock, May-June 1897
Belinda Mulrooney stakes her claim, June 1897
Jack London catches Klondicitis, July-October 1897
Starvation rations, October-December 1897
The pioneers' show, January-April 1898
Money talks
Gumboot diplomacy, April-June 1898
Jack's escape from the Yukon, June 1898
Rags and riches, summer 1898
Flora shaw, "from Paris to Siberia," July 1898
Queer, rough men, August 1898
Corruption and superintendent Steele, September-October 1898
Order and exodus
Strong men wept, winter 1898-99
A cleansing fire, April 1898
Stampede to nome: summer 1899
Mythmakers.

Chronicles the Klondike gold rush by following the adventures of six individuals whose lives were impacted by "Klondike fever," including a miner, a business woman, a British journalist, a member of the Canadian Mounties, and writer Jack London

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