Klondike Fever: Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush

Berton's story belongs less to the few who made fabulous fortunes of Alaskan gold than to the many swept by gold mania to unfortunate, often tragic ends. It is a story of cold skies and avalanches, of con men and gamblers and dance-hall girls, of sunken ships, of suicides, of dead horses and desperate men, of grizzly old miners and millionaires. It is a story of the land, of its exploitation and revenge. It is a story of the human capacity to dream. And to endure.