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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Highet, Megan J.
Other Authors: Burke, Stacie (Anthropology)
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3076