The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
"Morse demonstrates the dramatic environmental damage created by the gold rush, but she also helps us understand the very real accommodations that miners had to make if they hoped to survive in these far northern landscapes... She is a superb storyteller with a wry sense of humour, a flair for the quirky detail and the revealing anecdote, and a keen appreciation for the tragicomic underside of this famous event."--from the Introduction by William Cronon