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.

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).

.4 linear feet (1document box)

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