Chilkoot Trail: Heritage Route to the Klondike
"Chilkoot Trail has some of the earmarks of a coffee table volume. The book averages more than a photograph per page There are also scores of sidebar stories. But Chilkoot Trail should not be confused with a superficial tourist-oriented publication. The authors have mined the best primary and secondary sources, including park studies normally inaccessible to the general public, and have carefully provided the requisite citations. Their account goes well beyond the "gee whiz" elements of the stampede. This history connects the reader well to the experiences of a mass of people "urged by the arch-tempter--Gold" and to the lives of those who used this place before and after the two years for which the Chilkoot Trail is famous. It is a solid history, and a good example of providing the public with information which too often languishes in obscure official government histories." The Public Historian, Spring 1997 --The Public Historian, Spring 1997