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Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Maps
Preface
1 The Natives' Yukon
2 The Fur Trade
3 The Search for Bonanza, 1870–1896
4 The Gold Rush, 1896–1900
5 Herschel Island: The Unknown Yukon
6 After the Gold Rush, 1900–1918
7 The Lean Years, 1918–1939
8 War and Upheaval, 1939–1946
9 The Postwar Yukon
10 Rebuilding the Modern Yukon
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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