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South Pass, 1868: James Chisholm's Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush

"James Chisholm was a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune sent to report on the gold strike made in the late 1860s at one of the great historical features of the continent-South Pass on the western trails. His journal, illustrated by himself, is a graceful, observant narrative full of the real essence of frontier mining camp life."-Library Journal. "Chisholm had a lively sense of humor, an engaging frankness, and a fine eye for landscape. He was also a candid social critic."-Rocky Mountain News. "Lovers of the Old West will buy Chisholm's Journal and never part with it."-Pacific Historical Review. "If South Pass failed to produce gold in the paying quantities James Chisholm's miners thought it would, Chisholm himself produced finer, more lasting gold in his journal account of Wyoming's short-lived gold rush. His journal exudes the smell of sagebrush and scenic panoramas, of torrential rain storms and night packing, of being small in a big land, and of honest, earthy people who, in business-like fashion, went about the task of risking life, limb, health, and what small fortunes they had, to hit the big one. Chisholm sees with unpretentious eyes. His is an honest appraisal from a detached journalist, leavened with self-effacing humor. His prose is clean and clear. It can be read aloud and remembered."-Charles E. Rankin, editor of Montana: The Magazine of Western History. Lola M. Homsher was director of the Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department.

Motorists will use this new detour bridge at Gold Creek in 2010 for the duration of the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project.

The I-90 Project will build five miles of wider, safer and more reliable highway for east-west travelers.

Motorists will use this new detour bridge at Gold Creek through the duration of the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project.

The I-90 Project will build five miles of wider, safer and more reliable highway for east-west travelers.

The Chilkoot Pass is indeed the most famous trail in the North, and Archie Satterfield has written a unique book that is ideal for both hikers and armchair travelers. This revised edition with current trail updates is history, adventure, and an excellent guide to the Klondike Gold Rush National Park all in one. The Chilkoot Trail has been called the "meanest 32 miles in history" and the history detailed in this book will corroborate that as well as why, conversely, hikers, travelers, and students today call it the "most beautiful 32 miles in Alaska and British Columbia." Archie Satterfield, an experienced hiker and outdoorsperson, has written more than twenty books. He's made several trips over the Chilkoot and down the Yukon River.