Gold Prospectors of the Susitna Valley
Abstract No collection of Arctic-American literature would be truly representative without a selection derived from the rich mining history of the region. Here Robert Dunn (1877-1955), in a passage from his climbing classic The Shameless Diary of an Explorer (Outing, 1907), describes a group of pros...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
1990
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0021 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52479561/isbn-9780195061024-book-part-21.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract No collection of Arctic-American literature would be truly representative without a selection derived from the rich mining history of the region. Here Robert Dunn (1877-1955), in a passage from his climbing classic The Shameless Diary of an Explorer (Outing, 1907), describes a group of prospectors camped near his expedition’s bivouac on the Susitna River. No one has ever captured better, or in a briefer space, the tragedy and the comedy of the common prospector. Dunn, by the way, failed to reach the summit of Mount McKinley on this trip. |
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