Title: Gold Rush Winter
First published: October 2002
Description: At the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish-Americans Klondy and her mother travel from South Dakota to Alaska to live with Klondy's father, a gold-miner who left for the mines when she was just a baby. Based on events in the life of Klondy Nelson.
Subjects: History, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Gold mines and mining, Swedish Americans
Places: Alaska
People: Klondy Nelson (b. 1897)
Time periods: 19th century