The hardcover has light shelf wear on the corners and edges. No dust jacket. The binding is tight and pages are clean, no underlining, highlighting, or writing. A few pages have light foxing. 📚 Check out my shop for more We Were There & Landmark books! Synopsis | Imagine the Excitement that swept the country in the year 1897 – there was GOLD along the Klondike! When young Joe Murray let his mother and sister Annie that summer day in Seattle to head north with this father, he was a green-horn cheechako to be sure. Yet the long trail up the treacherous Chilkoot Pass and on the gold fields was enough to prepare him for hardships ahead. Beyond Dawson City, rushing river and swirling White Horse Rapids carried the two past ominous Squaw Whirlpool, deeper into the Canadian wilderness. Then at last the Klondie! But every inch of land along the river banks had already been claimed. Luck was bad until the Murrays met Caribou Dave who led them to a strike on Gold Creek as winter set in with its black polar winds. Food was scarce, and Joe, with Dave, drove a team of Malamutes across the frozen wastes in search of caribou…Then gold was struck! The hardest work was still ahead. By the spring, Joe and his father were no longer cheechako – but sourdoughts who had braved a harsh wilderness to mine the turbulent Klondike. —From dust jacket ABOUT THE SERIES | Are easy to read and provide exciting, entertaining stories, based upon true historic events. Each book tells the exciting story of two young persons? adventures during some of history's most dramatic events ? written by top authors and illustrated by top artists. Each story is checked for factual accuracy by an outstanding authority on this particular phase of our history. Though written simply enough for young readers, they make interesting reading for boys and girls well into their teens. b-130