Klondike Saga: The Chronicle of a Minnesota Gold Mining Company Book

Books : History : Gold Mining : Minnesota : Norwegian Immigrants

 

For your consideration an interesting book that tells the story of the Monitor Gold Mining and Trading Company, an organization of sixteen Minnesotans who traveled to the Canadian Klondike in the late 1890s in search of gold. This history is based on the diaries and letters written by the participants during their venture. The leader of the company was Lars Gunderson, the grandfather of the author Car Lokke. It was published by the University of Minnesota Press, for the Norwegian- American Historical Association in 1965. The pages are clean and tight. The dust jacket has minor wear but the price has been clipped.

Item ID: bsk-1147