The Chilkoot Pass is indeed the most famous trail in the North, and Archie Satterfield has written a unique book that is ideal for both hikers and armchair travelers. This revised edition with current trail updates is history, adventure, and an excellent guide to the Klondike Gold Rush National Park all in one. The Chilkoot Trail has been called the "meanest 32 miles in history" and the history detailed in this book will corroborate that as well as why, conversely, hikers, travelers, and students today call it the "most beautiful 32 miles in Alaska and British Columbia." Archie Satterfield, an experienced hiker and outdoorsperson, has written more than twenty books. He's made several trips over the Chilkoot and down the Yukon River.
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ARCHIE SATTERFIELD is a writer, photographer, editor, and lecturer-teacher.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A trail-ready, useful guide,
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This review is from: Chilkoot Pass, the Most Famous Trail in the North (Paperback)
Mr. Satterfield's guide to the Chilkoot has the ring of authenticity: a reader is convinced that he has been over every inch of the trail. It is well-written and thorough, and offers the right blend of historical minutia (though not so detailed as Pierre Berton's writing) and practical hiking advice. My own copy is well-worn from many Chilkoot miles.
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Good basic history on the Chilkoot Pass,
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This review is from: Chilkoot Pass, the Most Famous Trail in the North (Paperback)
This book provides a pretty decent history of the Chilkoot Pass and its usages during the Klondike Gold Rush era. In fact most of the book geared around the historical part of the Chilkoot although if anyone wishes to real a great book, Pierre Berton's Klondike: the Life and Death of the Last Gold Rush is definitely superior.But I was basically looking at the book as guide to hike the actual trail. Having read the lastest version of this book and having hiked the Chilkoot Pass several times by now, I found the trail guide to be somewhat dated and rather uninformative. The basic details seem to be there but it looked like many of the information came second handed. Book remains a pretty good introductary effort but I would recommended further research before hiking the trail.
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- Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père on page 105
- Faith of Fools: A Journal of the Klondike Gold Rush by William Shape in Back Matter
- The Klondike Stampede by Edwin Tappan Adney in Back Matter
- The Last Great Gold Rush: A Klondike Reader by Graham Wilson in Back Matter
- Gold Rush! by Russell Wright in Back Matter
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- True Secrets of Alaska Revealed! by Scott Gutelius in Back Matter
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