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"Even more than the grim, realistic historical adventure, it's the family story that will hold readers, especially Billy's battles with his angry sister, both of them mean and hostile as they try to cope with their sorrow and with the daily struggle for survival in the frontier town." (Booklist, 2008)[1]
After their mother dies in 1897, 12-year-old Billy McGee and his 16-year-old sister Edna, who is disguised and traveling as "Ed," leave Skagway, Alaska, in search of their father, who has gone farther north to prospect for gold in Canada's Yukon Territory.
Of note:
232 pages, published in 2008
The author had a personal connection to Skagway, Alaska. Her mother grew up there.
The book contains a map that shows the characters' travels.
The locations are real. There really was a Dead Horse Trail, Sheep Camp, and Chilkoot Trail, for example.
Some characters are based on real people, like Jefferson "Soapy" Smith, a gang boss who controlled businesses in various frontier towns.
Contains photos, info about traveling to and living in the Klondike, gold mining and gold discoveries, children in the gold rush, early newspapers, the White Pass, mail carriers, dogs, and other topics that Mary Waldorf researched and wrote about in The Gold Rush Kid.
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