| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. By Kathryn Morse. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xviii, 290 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-295-98329-9.)

One of the most enduring images of any North American mineral rush is that of prospectors struggling single file over Chilkoot Pass, heading for the Klondike goldfield. And this struggle is part of Kathryn Morse's story in The Nature of Gold. But Morse's book does much more than give another account of the Yukon experience. Her objective is to place the gold seekers within the context of their environment and explain how they encountered the natural world. This gold rush also offers a quick overview of the shift from subsistence production to industrial consumption, and it shows how that transition affected human interaction with nature.

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