"When thousands of stampeders raced to claim their share of the Klondike, reports already circulated that the Canadian gold fields were 'all filled up' and the gold-seekers faced a choice : work for wages at someone else's Klondike mine or search for gold on the American side of the international boundary. Those who chose the Koyukuk River came from as far away as Illinois, Michigan, and New York, and most were woefully unprepared for life above the...