Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Typescript of a book draft, photographs, and miscellaneous material.With the discovery of rich gold deposits in the Canadian Klondike River Valley (Yukon Territory) in 1895, Johns was sent by The Chicago Record to file reports on the ensuing gold rush. Much later, Johns wrote a draft for a book which contains chapters on the early history of Alaska, description of Seattle, Sitka, Nome and Fairbanks, details on working a claim, life in the mining...