Gold fever: death and disease during the Klondike gold rush, 1898-1904

• Main Author: Highet, Megan J.
• Other Authors: Burke, Stacie (Anthropology), Hoppa, Robert (Anthropology) Friesen, Gerald (History)
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Klondike Gold Rush; Dawson City; Typhoid Fever; Smallpox; Pneumonia; Scurvy; Measles; Infectious Disease; Anthropological Demography; Accidental Death; Yukon; Dawson
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3076

This thesis represents the first anthropological perspective to be offered on the nature of the Klondike Gold Rush population. In order to better understand the experience of the average gold rusher, morbidity and mortality patterns are examined for the residents of the Yukon Territory following the...