After the Gold Rush
- ISBN-10
- 0397011423
- ISBN-13
- 9780397011421
- Series
- After the Gold Rush
- Category
- Yukon
- Pages
- 180
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1976
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : Lippincott
- Author
- Archie Satterfield
Description
The Great Stampede was what the miners called the Yukon gold rush of 1897-98. but what happened after the rush ended? What happens to a land of boom when the boom goes bust? To find out, Archie Satterfield retraced the route of the Great Stampede, hiking the trails and floating the lakes and running the rapids of the Yukon River to Dawson City, meeting colorful people who recreate old myths and establish new ones.
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