Gold Rush in the Klondike: A Woman's Journey in 1898-1899

Gold Rush in the Klondike: A Woman's Journey in 1898-1899 by JOSEPHINE KNOWLES


Authors
JOSEPHINE KNOWLES
ISBN
9781610352703
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Dimensions
152 x 229 x 20mm

When Josephine Knowles left for the Klondike gold fields with her husband in 1898, she didn t know she would be facing a constant battle with cold, disease, malnutrition, and the ever-present possibility of death. With quiet determination, she resolved to survive, to endure each fresh hardship without complaint, and to be of service to the community around her. Gold Rush in the Klondike is Knowles s true story of her year in the Yukon territory, a revealing, never-before-published personal memoir of day-to-day life at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Written in a clear, forthright, nineteenth-century style, Gold Rush in the Klondike presents terrifying struggles against a hostile environment, picturesque descriptions of an untouched Arctic wilderness, and Knowles s keen observations of men and women on the frontier. A Victorian gentlewoman of refinement, Knowles found herself among swearing, whoring, sometimes violent miners, whom she won over with her grit and compassion. Deciding to never moralize or condemn, Knowles writes frankly of the intense hardships that drove miners into lives of drink and dissipation and the frontier women who were forced to make stark choices between prostitution and starvation. Knowles s adventures include encounters with author Jack London (Knowles firmly disapproved of London s cruel mistreatment of his sled dogs), nursing miners during a typhoid outbreak until she fell ill herself, witnessing savage fights among the miners, dangerous travel through the mountain passes and river rapids of the Yukon, and a daring surreptitious visit to a gambling saloon. Amid all hardships, Knowles formed warm relationships with the mining community, for, as she put it, All the diseases and other troubles had knitted us into one large family. Illustrated with period photographs, Gold Rush in the Yukon is an invaluable historical document of a lost time and place and an admirable portrait of one woman s determination in the face of danger."
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