Gold Rush Winter

By Claire Murphy, Claire Rudolf Murphy

Subjects: Gold mines and mining, Fathers and daughters, Fiction, Swedish Americans, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: At the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish-Americans Klondy and her mother travel from South Dakota to Alaska to live with Klondy's father, a gold-miner who left for the mines when she was just a baby. Based on events in the life of Klondy Nelson.