[Klondike - Yukon Gold Rush]

Official Guide to the Klondyke Country and the Gold Fields of Alaska with the Official Maps [Klondike]

Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1897. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 296. Frontis. b&w photos. Illustrated with numerous b&w photos on coated paper, line drawings in the text and a three-color foldout map of North America tipped in at the front. Red publisher's cloth with titles and illustration in gilt and black. Spine darkened, light soiling to covers, leaves toned and head edge foxed, foldout map lower edge crimped. Good+. Item #11762

In addition to presenting "Vivid Descriptions and Thrilling Experiences," the title page claims this is "the most complete and thoroughly exhaustive collection of every known information necessary to a full realization of the immense resources of the gold fields of Alaska and replete with authentic instructions regarding how to get there, when to go, and what to do when the new Eldorado of the Great Northwest is reached."

Verso of the North America map has smaller black-line maps of North American Transportation Co. 1897 Alaska and steamer routes, Juneau to Lewes river, Yukon River and Tributaries, Klondyke River, 1896 Alaska gold fields, and Northwest gold fields. SMITH: 7533.

Price: $100.00