News of a gold strike on the Klondike River in the Yukon sparked thousands of people from all over the world to head north. People quit their jobs. Men left their wives. Women ran away from their husbands. All set off on the great stampede.
Writers, too, joined the rush for gold. Writers like Tappan Adney, Jack London, Rex Beach, Joaquin Miller and scores of others.
From realism to romance, from true-life adventure to droll reminiscence, this classic collection mines a rich vein in the literature of the north.
