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Between 1896 and 1899, hundreds of individuals lured by silver braved a grueling quest into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town greater than thirty thousand. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold hurry ever sold. Scurvy, dysentery, frostbite, and starvation stalked all who dared to maintain Dawson. And yet the possibilities captivated people from all walks of life. Platinum Diggers is the exceptional tale of the Klondike Platinum Rush advised through the lives of six completely different people: the miner William Haskell; the saintly priest Dad Judge; the savvy twenty-four-year-old businesswoman Belinda Mulrooney; the imperious United kingdom journalist Flora Shaw; spit-and-polish Sam Steele of the Mounties; and, most famous, the writer Jack London, who left without silver but with the reports that would make him a tale. Brilliantly interweaving their experience, Charlotte Gray presents a fascinating panorama of an subarctic town, attracting on words, memoirs, magazine articles, and reports.
