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MARC recordLiving at the edge of a boomtown: transient life in Dawson City during the Klondike gold rush / Michael Brand.
| Title: | Living at the edge of a boomtown: transient life in Dawson City during the Klondike gold rush / Michael Brand. |
| Author(s): | Brand, Michael. |
| Date: | 2011. |
| Publisher: | Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska : |
| In: | Eldorado! : the archaeology of gold mining in the Far North. (2011.), |
| Abstract: | Discusses archaeology of transient people living on hillsides and marginal lands around Dawson City, Yukon, during boom years of Klondike gold rush. Living in tents and ephemeral ruins, transient people left little material culture and very limited historical record. Settlement pattern and lack of household belongings define culture of transience. |
| Notes: | In: Eldorado! : the archaeology of gold mining in the Far North / Catherine Holder Spude, and 3 others, eds. |
| Keywords: | 3 -- Social sciences. 314 -- Demography. 622.342 -- Gold rushes. 711.42(2) -- Settlements and stations, specific: Dawson City. 903 -- Archaeology. 93"189" -- 1890-1899. U -- Archaeology. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*41) -- Canada. (*430) -- Yukon Territory. |
| SPRI record no.: | 204679 |
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