books.google.ca - In 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion the incredible succession of events that Pierre Berton's exhilarating The Klondike Fever chronicles in all its splendid and astonishing folly. For the steamer Portland bore two tons of pure Klondike gold. And immediately, the stampede...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Klondike_Fever.html?id=bKPnVX3MumkC&q=sand&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareKlondike Fever
