A Mile of Gold: Strange Adventures on the Yukon

"A most thrilling story and an authentic account of real personal adventures." -The Annual American Catalogue, 1898William Stanley was a gold prospector who returned from the Klondyke country in 1897 with $112,000 made in three months and claims worth Sixteen Million Dollars . In 2017 dollars that would equate to 3.3 million in gold dust and nuggets and $478 million in claims.Stanley explains in his opening chapter: "Yes, I am the man who recently returned from the ice-bound regions of the north with $112,000 worth of dust and nuggets taken from the frozen earth in less than three months. It is gold. The metal the whole civilized world is courting. The one thing that all men are striving to win; the deity before which universal man has ever bowed; the material sought alike by the tutored and the untutored, the rich and the poor, the righteous and the wicked, the old and the young, the strong and the weak, the Christian and the heathen, aye by all men of whatever nationality, religion or condition."