“In 1897, eighty prospectors leaving the Klondike took with them between $25,000 and $500,000 each in gold. They carried it south in boxes, suitcases, jam jars, medicine bottles, cans, blankets, and sacks made from caribou hides." This is just one of the unique facts about the Yukon which make this book a fascinating read and an essential resource on Canada’s wildest territory.