
(Alaska) Gascon's Clondyke Map : Gold fields of Alaska
(Alaska) Gascon's Clondyke Map - Gold Fields of ALASKA Showing the latest discoveries, the new passes, proposed railroad route and other authentic information in both Canada and Alaska.. It was with the arrival of a few miners getting off the boat from Alaska with bags of gold in San Francisco that the Klondyke Gold Rush began in July of 1897, and like other gold rushes, it was to a remote area of the nation at the time, and there were several potential routes to find your fortune. This very rare folding map was one of those that could be purchased by prospectors as they set out for the wilds of Alaska. Produced by G.E. Gascon in the small Yukon river town of Circle City, this map gives as close to an insiders view to the gold fields as you could hope to find, it was then published and sold by the Puget Sound News Company in Seattle. Issued in folding paper covers this pocket map showed the two main potential routes to getting to the Gold Fields, one by sea which went around the Ale