Explore a collection of vivid northern narratives that trace the Yukon’s stranger episodes—from political schemes and Klondike gunfights to dramatic floods and objects uncovered from the ice. These pieces illuminate the people and events that shaped a remote frontier.

The book blends lively anecdote and historical context, following prospectors, notorious trail hands, and the Mounties who pursued them. You’ll find portraiture of colourful pioneers and surprising twists behind well-known names, all told with a long familiarity with Yukon lore.

Highlights

• Accounts of Jack Dalton and frontier gunfights
• Stories of women prospectors and pioneer life
• Political hoaxes, manhunts, floods and frozen finds
• Contextual history of Klondike-era Yukon

Lost Moose Book, 2010. 256 pages. ISBN 9781550174779.

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