The Klondike’s "Dear Little Nugget"

Table of Contents

• Contents 6
• The Gold Rush Begins 10
• Allen's Nugget 14
• The Early Editions 26
• The American Majority 35
• Race Relations 39
• Stroller White 41
• The Flavour of Dawson 46
• Dangerous and Deadly 49
• How the World Saw It 51
• The Gold Commissioner 54
• Hot Dusty Summer 57
• Princess of the Yukon 63
• Fire 65
• In the Fall of 1898 68
• Cad Wilson 70
• Thanksgiving of a Sort 72
• The All-Canadian Route 75
• The Dance-Hall Girls 77
• Christmas 1898 82
• Dawson's Rocket Still Burns Brightly 84
• Father William Judge 87
• Saloons 90
• Joaquin Miller 94
• The Final Year of the Century Begins 97
• Big Alex 103
• Les Girls — A Fact of Life 106
• The Consul and the Kicks 108
• In the Spring of the Year 112
• Alaskan Gold Stampede 115
• Charlie Meadows 118
• The Telegraph Line Arrives 120
• Three Men Executed 123
• From Kittens to Mittens 125
• Steele of the Northwest Mounted Police 127
• The Final Days of '99 129
• Christmas Bazaar 132
• The Nugget Express 134
• The Final Years of the Nugget 137
• Boom to Bust 153
• The Nugget Cashes In 156
• Endnotes 160