People/writer

Tappan Adney

Tappan Adney, writer, from United States. Linked to gold.

The lucky break

Explored Skagway, Dyea and the trails north in 1897 as a Harper's Weekly correspondent, carrying a camera and notebook.1

Legacy

Wrote The Klondike Stampede, one of the best first-hand accounts of the gold rush.1

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Timeline

  1. 1897 to 1900Klondike gold rush2
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Mines

InvestigatedKlondike (Bonanza Creek)A magazine artist covered the stampede with a camera and a notebook.1

Events

Worked atKlondike gold rushHe explored Skagway, Dyea and the trails north in 1897 as a Harper's Weekly correspondent.1

Places

Worked hereSkagwayTappan Adney explored Skagway, Dyea and the trails north in 1897.1

Sources

  1. Gold Rush Writers US National Park Service, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
  2. Skagway: Gateway to the Klondike (Teaching with Historic Places) US National Park Service

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Underground mining equipment by Kaupo Kikkas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899., Henry Marriott Paget (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Kimberley, South Africa: miners and washing gear at the Bultfontein diamond mine. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris., Harris, Robert, active 1881-1888. (Public Domain Mark 1.0).