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Faith of Fools : A Journal of the Klondike Gold Rush
author
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Shape, William.
publisher
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Washington State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0874221609
print isbn13
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9780874221602
ebook isbn13
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9780585079585
language
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English
subject
Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries, Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries--Pictorial works, Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Description and travel, Shape, William,--1867-1960--Diaries, Pioneers--Yukon Territory--Klondike River Valley
publication date
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1998
lcc
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F1095.K5S48 1998eb
ddc
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971.9/1
subject
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Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries, Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries--Pictorial works, Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Description and travel, Shape, William,--1867-1960--Diaries, Pioneers--Yukon Territory--Klondike River Valley
Page i
William shapes journal May 31, 1898
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Faith of Fools
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Faith of Fools
A JOURNAL OF THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH
WILLIAM SHAPE Foreword by Frank Norris Introduction by Lee Laney
Washington State University Press Pullman, Washington
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Washington State University Press, P.O. Box 645910, Pullman, WA 99164-5910 Phone 800-354-7360; FAX 509-335-8568 1998 by the Board of Regents of Washington State University All rights reserved First printing 1998
Printed and bound in the United States of America on pH neutral, acid-free paper. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including recording, photocopying, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shape, William, 1867-1960. Faith of fools: a journal of the Klondike Gold Rush/William Shape: introduction by Lee Laney: foreword by Frank Norris. p. cm. ISBN 0-87422-160-9 (acid-free paper) 1. Klondike River Valley (Yukon) Gold discoveries. 2. Klondike River Valley (Yukon) Gold discoveries Pictorial works. 3. Klondike River Valley (Yukon) Description and travel. 4. Shape, William, 1867-1960 Diaries. 5. Pioneers Yukon Territory Klondike River Valley Diaries. I. Title. F1095.K5S48 1998 971.9'1 dc2197-47780 [B]CIP
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Contents
Foreword
ix
Introduction: William Shape, 1867-1960
xv
One: Seattle and the Inland Passage
1
Two: Haines Mission and the Chilkat Pass
7
Three: Dyea and the Chilkoot Pass
29
Four: Lake Lindeman to McQuesten River
45
Five: Return to Seattle
79
Appendix: Place Names
95
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Foreword
Gold. Element number 79 on the chemist's periodic table, gold is a heavy, malleable metal that can be found in its free state either as dust or nuggets, or embedded in quartz lodes. Gold is a remarkable mineral, but its most remarkable quality is what it does to people. For thousands of years, in cultures around the world, gold has been coveted, valued, cherished. It was gold, for instance, that drove Cortez and Pizarro to conquer the Aztec and Inca civilizations; it was gold that drove tens of thousands of Forty-niners to California's mother lode; it was gold or the lack of it that drove William Jennings Bryan to cry out that "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"; and it was gold that caused more than 100,000 adventures from around the world, including William Shape and his companions, to leave home and family and strike out for the Klondike in 1897 and 1898. Perhaps Robert Service, the "Bard of the Klondike," put it best when he wrote:
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