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The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush
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The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. By Kathryn Morse. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xviii + 290 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, selected bibliography, index. $29.95.
The Klondike gold rush of 1897-1898 delivered a dose of excitement during a bleak decade. In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner provoked a sense of national loss by noting the demise of the frontier and the resulting shortage of free land as the primary formative force in the development of American character. The nation also suffered ...
