Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-Fields: A Thrilling Narrative of Personal Experiences and Adventures in the Wonderful Gold Regions of ... Along the Yukon; Portraying the Dangers, - William B. Haskell, Paperback

• Release Date   7/10/2017
• ISBN-13   9781333536763 | 978-1-333-53676-3
• ISBN   1333536763 | 1-333-53676-3
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   William B. Haskell
• Excerpt from Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-Fields: A Thrilling Narrative of Personal Experiences and Adventures in the Wonderful Gold Regions of Alaska and the Klondike, With Observations of Travel and Exploration Along the Yukon. Portraying the Dangers, Hardships, and Privations of a Gold-Seekers LifeThe Trail up Birch Creek Some of the Gulches Great Cost of Wood The Process of Placer Mining How the Prospector Works Testing the Dirt - The Miner's Pan - The Trick of Shaking Out Gold - 'all the Fascination Of Gambling Nature Holds the Cards Placer Mining Conditioned by the Climate - The Old Process of sun-thawing Soil That Resists Picks, Dynamite, and Hydraulics Where Fire Burning is Necessary - Burning at Night - A Long Process Sinking through the Muck Rockers Sluices and how They are Constructed Nature Caught in the Act Claims Regulated by the Miners Themselves The Birch Creek Yield of Gold, 199.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully. any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.