Join us for a talk from Mr. Whitekeys about his new Alaska gold rush book, The Voyage of The Alaska Union. Eighty greenhorns from Chicago set out to strike it rich in Alaska in 1898. It was the largest gold rush expedition ever launched, and they had no idea what they were in for. One of the prospectors, Charles Harris, toted a forty-pound camera with him during the entire odyssey, but his images have remained unseen for 120 years. In The Voyage of The Alaska Union, Mr. Whitekeys reveals a true tale of Alaska history that has never been told. Lavishly illustrated with one hundred of Charles Harris's photographs, the book relies on century-old diaries, letters, manuscripts, and newspaper accounts that tell the story in the words of the men who were there for the Koyukuk River gold stampede in 1898, the overflow from the famous Klondike gold rush. It's the story of tough men who survived with what they had. It may be 70 below, you may have forgotten to pack your tent on a hundred-mile trek, but if you had doughnuts, everything was just fine

CIHS Speaker Series: The Voyage of the Alaska Union