Teacher, traveler, naturalist and writer, the author spent 20 years working and traveling in Alaska and Canada’s Yukon Territory. His work was mostly about showing visitors the highlights of the far north, and telling them about its natural history as well as the history of its people. That history began thousands of years ago with the first Native American migrations from Asia. It also included stories about the search for gold. The most exciting of these was the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 and ‘98.

Talking with “old-timers,” studying the history of that great rush for gold, taking visitors to see the Klondike up close, and leading them to understandings and discoveries of their own, has provided the author with far more than the satisfaction of doing a job as well as he could; it also gave him a sense of the hardships those early Argonauts suffered through more than a hundred years ago.

Writing this series about KLONDIKE GOLD and a young man who experienced the adventure carries with it the hope that readers might develop some sense of the excitement that was part of the great adventure: The Klondike Gold Rush.

 

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