In Search of a Siberian Klondike

When gold was discovered in the Yukon, and later at Cape Nome in Alaska, the question naturally arose as to how far these deposit extended. Sensational reports in the papers, and the stories of valuable nuggets being picked up along the adjacent coast of Asia, fired the imagination of Russians, who hoped, and perhaps not without reason, to repeat the marvelous successes which had been met with on the American side. The existence of valuable gold deposits in other parts of Siberia lent color to the belief that the gold-bearing belt extended across from America to Siberia, and that consequently the Asiatic shores of the Bering Sea ought to be well worth prospecting.The author, an American prospector hired to make an extended prospecting tour in Kamchatka and along the shores of the Bering Sea, tells of his adventures and experiences throughout the region. The book was first published in 1903 and contains numerous photographs taken by the author.