Gold fever: death and disease during the Klondike gold rush, 1898-1904
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...
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ftunivmanitoba:oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/3076 2023-06-18T03:40:22+02:00 Gold fever: death and disease during the Klondike gold rush, 1898-1904 Highet, Megan J. Burke, Stacie (Anthropology) Hoppa, Robert (Anthropology) Friesen, Gerald (History) 2008-09-12 11782152 bytes application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3076 eng eng http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3076 open access Klondike Gold Rush Dawson City typhoid fever smallpox pneumonia scurvy measles infectious disease anthropological demography accidental death master thesis 2008 ftunivmanitoba 2023-06-04T17:39:39Z 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 discovery of gold in the region (1898-1904). Infectious diseases such as measles, pneumonia, smallpox and typhoid fever are the primary focus of this study, however local factors such as the severe climate and the seclusion of the gold fields from the outside world also offers an interesting opportunity to examine the consequences of leading a particularly harsh and physically demanding lifestyle in an inhospitable environment. October 2008 Master Thesis Dawson Yukon MSpace at the University of Manitoba Dawson City ENVELOPE(-139.433,-139.433,64.060,64.060) Yukon |
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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 discovery of gold in the region (1898-1904). Infectious diseases such as measles, pneumonia, smallpox and typhoid fever are the primary focus of this study, however local factors such as the severe climate and the seclusion of the gold fields from the outside world also offers an interesting opportunity to examine the consequences of leading a particularly harsh and physically demanding lifestyle in an inhospitable environment. October 2008 |
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Gold fever: death and disease during the Klondike gold rush, 1898-1904 |
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Gold fever: death and disease during the Klondike gold rush, 1898-1904 |
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Gold fever: death and disease during the Klondike gold rush, 1898-1904 |
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gold fever: death and disease during the klondike gold rush, 1898-1904 |
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