Alaska, Its Gold and Its Best Company

Alaska, Its Gold and Its Best Company
Author: Mining And Exploration C [Yukon Trading
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2018-10-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780342497942

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The Alaska Gold Rush

The Alaska Gold Rush
Author: David Wharton
Publisher: Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1972
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253100610

Reconstructs the personalities, events, trading settlements and major strikes which produced the Alaska gold-mining boom.

The Northern Gold Fleet

The Northern Gold Fleet
Author: Clark C. Spence
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1996
Genre: Alaska
ISBN: 9780252022180

The Northern Gold Fleet is the story of how new gold-dredging technology was applied to the rich placers of the Far North from 1899 to the present, leading to mass production and economies of scale that made previously unprofitable resources profitable. The bucket-ladder dredge was a single, complex apparatus that rivaled ocean freighters in size. At once ugly, spectacular, and awesome, the dredges dug, classified materials, and performed gold-saving and tailing-disposal functions. A richly illustrated and comprehensive history. The Northern Gold Fleet is part environmental, part technological, part corporate, part labor, and part Alaskan in its thrust, offering a picture - both dazzling and absorbing - of how new technology simultaneously helped build the economy and lay waste the resources of Alaska.