Lecture 6:
The Klondike Gold Rush and the Yukon

 

Lecture Outline

 

Weekly Readings:

Morrison, “Eldorado” in True North, 78-104 .

Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History: Who Discovered the Klondike Gold? http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/klondike/home/indexen.html

Julie Cruikshank, “Images of Society in Klondike Gold Rush Narratives: Skookum Jim and the Discovery of Gold,” Ethnohistory 39/1 (1992), 20-41. [JSTOR]

 

Further Reading on the Klondike Gold Rush and the Yukon to 1945:

Atkin, R., Maintain the Right (1973), ch. 19-21

Backhouse, F., Women of the Klondike (1995)

Berton, Pierre, Klondike, the Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899.  Rev. ed. (1979)

Coates, K. and W.R. Morrison, Land of the Midnight Sun.  A History of the Yukon (1988)

Coates, K., ed. The Alaskan Highway (1985)

Coates, K., Best Left as Indians: Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840-1973 (1991)

Coates, K., North to Alaska: Fifty Years in the World's Most Remarkable Highway (1992)

Coates, K. and W.R. Morrison, The Alaska Highway in World War II (1991)

Cruikshank, J. Life Lived like a Story (1991)

Cruikshank, Julia, "The Gravel Magnet: Some Impacts of the Alaska Highway on Yukon Indians" in K.S. Coates, ed., The Alaskan Highway (1985), pp. 172-187

Cruikshank, J., Reading Voices, Oral and Written Interpretations of the Yukon's Past (1991)

Franks, C.S., "How the Sabbath came to the Yukon," Canadian Public Administration, 10 (1967): 123-135

Greenhous, B. Guarding the Goldfields.  The Story of the Yukon Field Force (1987)

Hunt, William R., Whiskey Peddlar: Johnny Healy, North Frontier Trader

Hunt, William R., Passage to the North: A Traveler's Companion to the Historic Sites and Frontier Legends Along the Alaskan Highway (1992)

Kelcey, Barbara E. Alone in Silence. European Women in the Canadian North before World War II (2001)

Lotz, Jim, Northern Realities (1970) pp. 41-63

Lower, A.R.M and H.A. Innis, Settlement and the Forest and Mining Frontiers, Part II, Chapter 4, pp. 252-269

Lysyk, K.M. et al. Alaska Highway Pipeline Enquiry

Mayer, M.J., Klondike Women (1989)

McCandless, Robert G., Yukon Wildlife: A Social History (1985)

McClelland, C., Part of the Land.  Part of the Water.  A History of Yukon Indians (1987)

Minter, R., The White Pass.  Gateway to the Klondike (1988)

Morrison, W., The Politics of the Yukon Territory, 18989-1909 (1968)

Morrison, D.R., Showing the Flag.  The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North 1894-1925 (1985)

Porsild, C. Gamblers and Dreamers. Women, Men and Community in the Klondike

Satterfield, A., After the Gold Rush (1976)

Stone, Thomas. Flux and Authority in a Subarctic Society: The Yukon Miners in the Nineteenth Century,” Ethnohistory 30/4 (1983), 203-16. Available through JSTOR.

Twichell, H., Northwest Epic. The Building of the Alaskan Highway (1992)

Winslow, Kathryn, Big Pan-Out (1951)

Writer, A., Prelude to Bonanza.  The Discovery and Exploitation of the Yukon (1980)

Zaslow, M., "The Yukon: Northern Development in a Canadian-American Context," in Kenneth Coates and William R. Morrison, eds., Interpreting Canada's North. pp 185-198

Zaslow, M., The Northward Expansion of Canada, 1914-1967