| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.2

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The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. By Kathryn Morse. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xviii + 290 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, selected bibliography, index. $29.95.

The Klondike gold rush of 1897–1898 delivered a dose of excitement during a bleak decade. In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner provoked a sense of national loss by noting the demise of the frontier and the resulting shortage of free land as the primary formative force in the development of American character. The nation also suffered through a protracted economic slump throughout much of the 1890s. The Klondike gold rush provided a welcome remedy by offering a chance to engage in one last frontier adventure and perhaps get rich in the process. As a result, historians often have portrayed the gold rush as a celebratory experience representing yet another step in the inexorable process of American Manifest Destiny.

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