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Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold

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Click here to watch the video produced for Kate’s induction into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, featuring author Deb Vanasse and several of Kate’s descendants.

Click here to listen to a 2019 CBC radio interview with Deb Vanasse.

Emotion Reigns as Pioneer is Recognized

Bloomberg News

Kate Carmack and the (modern-day) sisters who moil for gold

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About the Book

Regarding a discovery that changed the course of history, Kate Carmack’s perspective—and indeed the perspective of all Native people—has been overlooked time and again. A counterpoint to the usual narrative of intrepid adventurers driven by gold, Wealth Woman: Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold . . .

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About the Author

At age twenty-one, Deb Vanasse was dropped by a bush pilot on a gravel runway in middle of the Alaska wilderness. No roads, no houses, no cars, no people—only a winding brown slough and tundra spread flat as prairie. She had come not for adventure but to live, an isolating but evocative experience...

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Sample Chapter

The Roanoke is loaded with gold. Bags, cans, boxes, and crates cram its lower deck, jammed with a whopping ten tons of gold panned and sluiced by lucky devils in the northern wilderness. Only a year ago, no one had heard of the patch of low mountains and dense northern spruce now known as the Klondike.

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