Project Gutenberg 2012-10-24 Public domain in the USA. 77 Ingersoll, Ernest 1852 1946 01015728 Golden Alaska: A Complete Account to Date of the Yukon Valley Reading ease score: 65.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Golden Alaska: A Complete Account to Date of the Yukon Valley" by Ernest Ingersoll is a historical account written in the late 19th century. This work aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the Yukon Valley, focusing on its history, geography, mineral resources, and the means of access to this remote area that garnered significant attention during the gold rush. With the recent discovery of gold in the Klondike region, the book intends to satisfy public curiosity with factual information about this newfound frontier. The opening of the book sets the stage for an exploration of the Yukon, detailing the various logistical routes to the gold fields, particularly emphasizing the significance of the Yukon River and its tributaries. Ingersoll introduces key companies and reliable transportation resources for prospective miners, while also discussing both land and sea approaches to reach this challenging yet promising territory. He provides a blueprint for travelers, covering the necessary preparations and dangers they might encounter, thereby highlighting the urgency and excitement of the gold rush as adventurers flock to this "greatest gold district on earth." (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41158/41158-h/images/cover.jpg en Alaska -- Description and travel Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska) -- Description and travel F850.5 Text Browsing: History - American Browsing: Travel & Geography 241775 241570 2024-10-17T10:40:37.519942 2023-09-18T05:14:41.990717 text/html text/html 236035 2012-10-23T19:58:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 6691380 2012-10-23T20:01:36 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 6825707 2024-10-17T10:40:46.055864 application/epub+zip 6814054 2024-10-17T10:40:39.333887 application/epub+zip 150009 2024-10-17T10:40:38.435860 application/epub+zip 6872130 2024-10-17T10:40:51.224853 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 6837452 2024-10-17T10:40:44.286831 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 206738 2022-09-18T19:07:34.336095 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 171115 170904 2024-10-17T10:40:36.133892 2023-09-18T05:14:41.178763 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 170778 2012-10-23T19:58:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 66066 2012-10-23T20:01:36 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 170789 2012-10-23T20:01:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 66030 2012-10-23T20:01:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22022 2024-10-17T10:40:51.409781 application/rdf+xml 24616 2024-10-17T10:40:38.532870 image/jpeg 3595 2024-10-17T10:40:38.483856 image/jpeg 6700403 2024-10-17T10:40:37.965840 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia