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Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich In The Klondike (2010)

by Charlotte Gray(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1582436118 (ISBN13: 9781582436111)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

HarperCollins Canada

review 1: I really liked this!! I knew little about the gold rush and I felt this book gave me both a wider context and a specific understanding of certain peoples' experiences. Charlotte Gray is a good writer and a great researcher; in this book she follows the story of the Klondike gold rush through the stories of a prospector, a priest, a businesswoman, an English journalist, the law officer Sam Steele, and Jack London. I liked some chapters/characters (all real people, please note) better than others but it was all interesting. There are lots of 'words of the time' (letters, newspaper articles, etc.) to give more details and veracity to the stories. Recommended.
review 2: The back cover blurb reads: "Mounties, miners, ministers, and dance hall girls — they all came... more to Dawson City in the Yukon as the world went mad for gold." Respected biographer Charlotte Gray has chosen six different individuals to profile in this book from among thousands who flocked to the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890s. There's the miner William Haskell, whose partner Joe Meeker is tragically swept away under the ice by the swift current in the Yukon River; the selfless Jesuit priest, Father Judge; British journalist Flora Shaw; shrewd businesswoman and entrepreneur Belinda Mulrooney;legendary law man, Mountie Sam Steele; and my favourite, a young American writer by the name of Jack London. Each one of the interwoven stories is fascinating as the subjects struggle to make new lives for themselves in the far north, at times barely surviving the harsh environment. This is a well-researched volume, and I found it highly readable and vastly interesting. less

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