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The Northern Gold Fleet: Twentieth-Century Gold Dredging in Alaska

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"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.

Excellent book. Fairly accurate, does makes some mistakes in a few places, but overall very good. Excellent reading. Highly recommended