Black Sand and Gold SIGNED 1956 Edward Lung & Ella Martinsen - Klondike - Gold Rush - Yukon - Chilkoot Pass
Title: Black Sand and Gold
Author: Edward B. Lung as told to Ella Lung Martinsen
Description: Inscribed by Ella Lung Martinsen in 1956. Photo of Martinsen signing books taken in the 1970's affixed to front paste-down. Stated First Edition. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Some fraying at foot of spine.Some biographical notes hand-written by Martinsen on frontispiece. Pages clean. Forty illustrations. One plate has a fragile and chipped folded-crease. 419 pp. 8 x 5.5 inches.
Edward Burchell Lung (1867-1956) of Tacoma, a friend of Joaquin Miller, participated in the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898. This is his account, based on his diaries and as told to his daughter, Ella Lung Martinsen (1901-1977). Ella herself was born in the town of Dawson City in the Yukon Territory.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None
Publisher: Vantage Press
Place: New York
Year: 1956
Language: English
ISBN: n/a
Keywords: Klondike Gold Rush, history, Yukon, Chilkoot Pass, gold mining, mining, gold rush,
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