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Music of the Alaska-Klondike Gold Rush

Music of the Alaska-Klondike Gold Rush

“We found that music, more than anything, tended to ease the tension among us,” Edward Lung wrote in his book “Black Sand and Gold,” an account of his time in Alaska and the Klondike from 1897 to 1901. He continued, “A fellow by the name of Bates often brought his guitar over to our cabin and we’d blow off steam, singing old songs at the top of our lungs.” “Some Folks,” a Stephen Foster song was one they sang. The group had plenty of reason for tension. They were seven disappointed, hungry gold seekers who were marooned in a tiny cabin for the winter of 1897 at the town of Circle on the Yukon River. Lung’s story is one of many who talked about the music they enjoyed in their tent or cabin homes with wet socks hanging from the rafters and frost condensing on the walls. A person with a musical instrument had immediate friends. The 24 songs on the CD are from of a collection of 94 songs in the book, “Music of the Alaska/Klondike Gold Rush” b...

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