Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
History
Scope and Content of Collection
Descriptive Summary
Title: Ben Smith / Alaska Yukon Gold Rush Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1882-1915
Date (bulk): (bulk 1898-1901)
Collection Number: Wyles Mss 1
Creator:
Smith, Ben
Extent:
.4 linear feet
(1document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Ben Smith / Alaska Yukon Gold Rush Collection. Wyles Mss 1. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1980.
History
Information about the Alaskan Gold Rush may be found in works such as:
- Becker, Ethel Anderson.
Kondike '98: Hegg's Album of the 1898 Alaska Gold Rush (1958).
- DeGraf, Anna.
Pioneering on the Yukon, 1892-1917 (1992).
- Landru, H. C.
The Blue Parka Man: Alaskan Gold Rush Bandit (1980).
- Littlepage, Dean.
Gold Fever in the North (1997).
- Lung, Edward Burchall.
Black Sand and Gold (1967).
- Lung, Velma D.
Trail to North Star Gold (1969).
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of Ben Smith, from Redwood City, California, who went to the Alaska Yukon goldfields ca. 1898-1900, and then apparently
returned to California. The collection contains correspondence, diaries/journals, documents, financial records, maps, and
other ephemera, much of it relating to Smith's stay in Alaska.