This book is the story of the Klondike Gold Rush told through the lives of six people: the miner Bill Haskell, the saintly priest, Father Judge, the savvy 24-year-old businesswoman Belinda Mulrooney, the British journalist Flora Shaw, the highly disciplined Sam Steele of the Mounties, and the writer Jack London, whose stories about the North made him a legend.
Mike and I visited Dawson City four years ago when we were on a Holland America trip. Mike has a family member who went to Dawson as a young man in the 1920s and died there in 1945, so we climbed a very long hill - me wearing flip flops, as I recall - to find the local cemetery where James McCrank was buried, and we did!
The stories of these six people in this book were fascinating - the author interwove their stories so well, and each one was so unique from the other. The hardships of Bill Haskell were perhaps the most affecting, particularly dealing with the challenges of spending a winter in such a remote area with so few resources.
I wish I'd read this before we went to Dawson, but it sure brought back some memories.
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