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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Main Author: Dunn, Robert
Format: Book Part
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Published: Oxford University PressNew York, NY 1990
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Arctic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0021
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spelling croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0021 2023-12-31T10:03:35+01:00 Gold Prospectors of the Susitna Valley Dunn, Robert 1990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0021 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52479561/isbn-9780195061024-book-part-21.pdf unknown Oxford University PressNew York, NY A Republic Of Rivers page 127-130 ISBN 9780195061024 9780197725870 book-chapter 1990 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0021 2023-12-06T09:04:12Z 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. Book Part Arctic Oxford University Press (via Crossref) 127 130
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description 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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