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Frank Norris has lived in Alaska since 1983. He spent much of the 1980s in Skagway, where he was a ranger and historian at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. He now works for the National Park Service in Anchorage. The Klondike gold rush remains a favourite research focus. He has also written on topics ranging from homesteading to gardening, tourism, container shipping, sport fishing and various histories of Alaska's national park unit.

Chilkoot Trail: Heritage Route to the Klondike
1550173359 · May 2005 · $24.95
The 1898 Yukon Goldrush has become synonymous with high adventure and peril, a time when thousands of men—and a few courageous women—braved their way over mountain passes, down a raging river and into the heart of a wild and frozen land.