Wild Horses And Gold. From Wyoming To The Yukon

ELIZABETH PAGE

Publication: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1932, New York

First edition, third printing. 8vo. Tan cloth, titles stamped in dark brown on front cover and spine, map on front and rear endpapers, xiii [blank], 362 pp., foreword, acknowledgment, illustrated, frontispiece, notes on historical sources, list of Klondike parties passed. Illustrated by Paul Brown.

Third Printing of this epic account of how some Wyoming horse wranglers started out to drive a herd of horses to the Klondike gold fields in 1897-98 because they heard they were fetching $400.00 dollars apiece there. Based on the contemporaneous journal of Kansas Gilbert. Page (1889-1969) who is perhaps best remembered for her "Wagons West: a Story of the Oregon Trail," which detailed and created the letters and journal of her great uncle Henry Page to his wife Mary as he headed West along the Oregon Trail during the California Gold Rush of '49, and she subsequently retraced the route in her Ford motor along the Trail. Scarce in original dust jacket. Not in Kurutz, Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes, A Descriptive Bibliography. Zane Grey says: "It is romantic yet historical, and altogether thrilling and authentic. I am happy to recommend it." Constance Lindsay Skinner says: "Miss Page has done a useful service in writing this bit of lost history, and in bringing its geographical setting to life. Readers will be grateful for the excellent map of the Edmonton route with its branches. Miss Page has put her story in fictional form and so has probably increased, the normal audience for a book of this type, but her first concern has been to offer an authentic document."

Former owner's small gift inscription on recto of frontispiece, else a very good copy in the original bright dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends, corners and with tiny nicks, creases and closed tears to the extremities.