List of Illustrations 000
List of Maps 000
List of Tables 000
Acknowledgments 000
Part I. Rediscovering Eldorado: An Introduction to This Volume 000
Catherine Holder Spude and Robin O. Mills
1. An Overview History of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rushes, 1880<EN>1918 000
Robert L. Spude
2. Theoretical Perspectives on the Frontier Mining Pattern 000
Donald L. Hardesty
3. A Proposed Model for a Placer Gold Mining Settlement System 000
Robin O. Mills
4. Predicting Social and Economic Function at Residential and Commercial Site Types in the Far North, 1880<EN>1920 000
Catherine Holder Spude
5. New Perspectives from the North: Comparative Opportunities and Challenges in an Archaeology of Eldorado 000
Margaret Purser
Part II. Intermediate Coastal Transfer and Supply Settlements: Supplying the Upper Yukon through Skagway and Dyea 000
Robin O. Mills and Catherine Holder Spude
6. Already Here and Rich: A Brief Ethnohistory of Upper Lynn Canal 000
Thomas F. Thornton
7. Tobacco Pipes, Medicinals, and Decorated Dishes: The Archaeology of Gender and Economic Class in Households from Skagway, Alaska 000
Doreen C. Cooper and Catherine Holder Spude
8. Faunal Remains in Skagway: Gold Rush to Working Class 000
David R. Huelsbeck
PART III. Getting around the Landscape: Links in the Interior Transportation System 000
Robin O. Mills and Catherine Holder Spude
9. An Overview of Chilkoot Trail Archaeology 000
Eve Griffin and Karl Gurcke
10. Canyon City: The Archaeology of a Company Town on the Transportation Network to the Klondike 000
T. J. Hammer
PART IV. Central and Secondary Distribution Settlements: Supplying the Mining Districts 000
Robin O. Mills and Catherine Holder Spude
11. Explaining Variability in Northern Gold Mining Saloons 000
Catherine Holder Spude, Robert M. Weaver, and Tim A. Kardatzke
12. Living at the Edge of a Boomtown: Transient Life in Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush 000
Michael Brand
13. Boom through Bust and Beyond: Changing Settlement System Functions at Coldfoot, a Placer Mining Town in Alaska 000
Robin O. Mills
14. Alder Smoke and Shoe Nails: Life in an Early-20th-Century Mining Camp 000
Howard L. Smith, Robin O. Mills, and Catherine Holder Spude
PART V. Extracting the Wealth: Sites on the Gold Creeks 000
Robin O. Mills and Catherine Holder Spude
15. Living the Solitary Life: Placer Mining Camps in Alaska, 1900<EN>1950 000
Becky M. Saleeby
16. Alaska Natives in the Gold Rush: A Look at Valdez Creek in the Early- to Mid-20th Century 000
Robert E. King
17. Cabin Comforts: The Archaeology of Bachelor Cabins on Fish Creek, Alaska 000
Andrew S. Higgs and Robert A. Sattler
References Cited 000
List of Contributors 000
Index 000