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vii Contents Y Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction “Hard Places” 1 Chapter One Claims and Speculations 13 Chapter Two Mining and Writing 32 viii Chapter Three Knowing the Mines “Interiorly” 54 Chapter Four The Romance of Mining 74 Chapter Five Sex Work 91 Chapter Six “Talking Klondike” 110 Afterword 129 Notes 135 Selected Bibliography 160 Index 180 ...

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