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WHITING, F. B. GRIT, GRIEF AND GOLD: A TRUE NARRATIVE OF AN ALASKA PATHFINDER.
Seattle: Peacock Publishing Co., 1933. First edition. xvi, 247 pp. Plus 14 plates from photographs. Gilt pict. embossed cloth. 8vo. Very good. PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED by the author. Foreword by Rex Beach. The author served as chief surgeon during the construction of the White Pass and Yukon Railway and the Copper River and Northwestern Railway in Alaska. He was a close associate of the railroad's founder Michael J. Heney. He gives a vivid account of the building of the railroad in 1898, with two chapters on the outlaw Soapy Smith, and one on George Carmack, who along with two Indian companions, Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie, is credited with discovering gold in the Klondike. INSCRIBED by the author to another sourdough: "To S. E. Henderson in memory of the old days on the 'Trail' Which murdered both men and horses. Fenton B. Whiting." RICKS, p. 255. TOURVILLE 4843. SMITH 10950. SIX-GUNS 2388: "Scarce.... Has several chapters on Soapy Smith, giving some different information on his gang by the doctor who performed the autopsy on Soapy after his death."
Offered for US$ 200.00 by: Almagre Books - Book number: 19207