Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields; A Full Account of the Discovery of Gold; Enormous Deposits of the Precious Metal; Routes Traversed by Miners; How to Find Gold; Camp Life at Klondike | Practical Instructions for Fortune Seekers, Etc. Etc. | Including a Graphic Description of the Gold Regions; Land of Wonders; Immense Mountains, Rivers and Plains; Native Inhabitants, Etc. | Mrs. Eli Gage's Experiences of a Year among the Yukon Mining Camps . .

Chicago: Monroe Book Company [J. R. Jones copyright], 1897. Second Edition. Near Fine. [8.25x6.5in]; [2], plate, fold out color map, iii-xi, [1], image plate and fold out black-white map, 17-556 pp., [4], 16 plates including frontispiece recto verso plate illustrations of fording a river and overland route, 30 recto verso black-white images, 32 illustrations in text with several full page; Ochre cloth covers with gilt, black and red lettering on front and spine, color illustrations on front and spine of mining camps with snow capped mountains and sun rays on front, all edges trimmed with multiple color marbling, light brown floral end papers and headband; Minimal shelf wear to covers, edges and corners, rubbing to corners and top bottom of spine, two stain spots at rear top joint and cover, darken top edge, old tape repairs to tear at hinge of fold out color map, slight age toning of text top edges, cover and spine gilt vibrant. [Kurutz Klondike 236j, Tourville 1958, Ricks p. 116 ] CS. A. C. Harris was a traveler and writer that wrote an extensive and early account of the Klondike gold rush. The book contains promotional and practical information on traveling to the Yukon and Alaska gold fields. There are many quotes from miners and other promoting the area and the abundance of gold to be found. It was a very popular book that was sold by subscription through multiple publishers. This book is an "expanded' edition that was issued later in 1897, and includes a new chapter "Advent of Winter" which adds confirmation of earlier claims of wealth and information on the difficulties of winter travel.

From Kurutz, "Although not a miner himself, he loaded his narrative with dozens of quotations from men and women in the Klondike whose opinions and experiences no doubt influenced thousands of would-be fortune hunters. As mentioned in the title, Harris's book features the experiences of such notables as Mrs. Eli Gage [Eli Gage was an officer in an Yukon trading company and provide one of the first reports of gold], Mrs. Frederick Schwatka [wife of an Army officer and explorer of Northern Canada and Alaska], and Joaquin Miller [Cincinnatus Heiene Miller, "Poet of the Sierras"]. . . . Harris covered every major aspect of the Klondike, including routes, mining methods, miner' laws, outfits, transportation, weather, health, saloons, dance halls, and indigenous peoples."

This book was from the library of Dr. G. Warren Smith (1941-2021) of Pennsylvania. He had a long career as university professor and administrator, and was a collector of over 6,000 books, maps, illustrations, and artifacts relating to the Arctic, Alaska and Pacific Northwest.