Gold Rush : The untold story of the first nations women who started the Klondike Gold Rush

This is a decolonized retelling of the famous story of the Klondike Gold Rush set against the powerful backdrop of the Yukon valley with forbidding mountains and rickety railway tracks cutting through the snow.

This book shines a light for the first time on Shaaw Tláa (Kate Cormack), the First Nations woman who first discovered the gold that led 100,000 gold diggers to descend on the region. In the book children will learn about how gold was discovered and possessed the popular imagination, the towns that popped up overnight, the treacherous journeys people made to cross the forbidding Yukon landscape, the building of epic railways and the resilience and injustices experienced by the first nations people whose towns became inundated by gold-diggers and the legacy of the Gold Rush.

Flora Delargy’s style takes in minute and exhilarating non-fiction details, from the beautifully rendered train tickets and maps of the mountains, diagrams of railway bridges, step-by-step look at how to pan for gold to breathtaking illustrations of the Yukon mountains.