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The Northern Gold Fleet: Twentieth-Century Gold Dredging in Alaska [Hardcover]

Clark C. Spence (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 302 pages
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press (May 1, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0252022181
  • ISBN-13: 978-0252022180
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars A historical tome, April 15, 1999
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This review is from: The Northern Gold Fleet: Twentieth-Century Gold Dredging in Alaska (Hardcover)
"The Northern Gold Fleet" is a detailed academic historical tome, surely the authority on the subject for years to come. For a monograph of this genre, it is well written. However, it desperately needs, and lacks any diagrams, line illustrations, etc. The only illustrations are a few fuzzy historical photos of dredges. Numerous terms such as "jitney winch" are undefined. Many terms such as "ground sluicing" and "drift mine" are used in ways which seem to be in variance with standard usage. Unfortunately, there is no glossary-which again is desperately needed. There is no summary of the book, nor of the chapters, nor a timeline-so the reader has to perform all summaries himself. If half the text were replaced with line drawings, tables, diagrams, a timeline and a glossary, this book would have been a hundred times more readable and useful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Northern Gold Fleet, January 30, 2003
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Excellent book. Fairly accurate, does makes some mistakes in a few places, but overall very good. Excellent reading. Highly recommended
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In the opening years of the twentieth century, Chester W. Purington, a mining engineer of international standing and a dredge specialist of note, visited Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Read the first page
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jackass machinery, digging ladder, dredge ground, dredging company, steam thawing, dredge fields, lower tumbler, dredge workers, gold dredging, thaw points, dredging ground, three dredges, new dredge, dredge operators, four dredges, dredge construction, bench deposits, operating dredges, dredge site, dredge operation, small dredges, dredge companies, big dredges, bucket lips, dredge company
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Fairbanks Exploration, Seward Peninsula, Hammon Consolidated, United States, World War, Coal Creek, San Francisco, New York, Blue Goose, Solomon River, Charles Janin, Fish Creek, Tanana Valley Gold Dredging Company, Fairbanks Creek, Ophir Creek, Davidson Ditch, Union Construction Company, Bear Creek, University of Alaska, Chicken Creek, Ellis Powell, Little Eldorado, Livengood Placers, Otter Creek, Candle Creek
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