My first Pierre Berton. I thought - for some reason - that he was from Montreal. Nope, apparently born in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Anyways, a slender book (more a pamphlet) but filled with the larger than life characters, almost entirely peripheral, that made up the Yukon/Alaska Goldrush. Not first person, but he drew upon any number of sources, and it intrigues me to think that a great many of their skeletons and possessions still litter the trails North from Edmonton, Ashcroft, and of course amongst the mountains and glaciers of Alaska, Northern BC and the Yukon.