The Klondike Gold Rush: Photographs from 1896-1899
Photos tell the true story of the gold rush's realityThe Can-Can girls were out and Mrs. Lowe's laundry was in.That basically sums up the idea Graham Wilson had when he chose the period photographs for The Klondike Gold Rush: Photographs from 1896-1899.After rushing supplies off Lynn Canal's tidal flats, climbing the 50-kilometer Chilkoot Trail several times and boating down the Yukon River, a miner still needed his laundry done. So the photo of Mrs. G.I. Lowe's laundry at Bonanza Creek (Mending free of Charge, Fortunes Told) more closely depicts the reality of the gold rush than the Can-Can dancers who now celebrate its centennial.To create an image-driven story that begins in Skagway, climbs the Chilkoot pass and finishes at Dawson City was the goal for the fledgling Wolf Creek Books Inc.'s first book. --Judith Isbella, Time Colonist, Victoria, BC