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Gold Rush: The Untold Story of the First Nations Women Who Started the Klondike Gold Rush

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ISBN9780711263871

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Wide Eyed Editions/Quarto, 2024

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Flora Delargy

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Set against the powerful backdrop of the Yukon valley, with forbidding mountains and rickety railway tracks cutting through the snow, this book shows how gold was discovered and how it possessed the popular imagination. It explores the towns that popped up overnight, the treacherous journeys people made to cross the forbidding Yukon landscape, the building of epic railways, and the resilience and injustices experienced by the First Nations people whose towns became inundated by gold-diggers and the legacy of the Gold Rush.

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