Klondike Mike

Klondike Mike: An Alaskan Odyssey is Merrill Denison's 1943 biography of Mike Ambrose Mahoney, a Canadian who travelled to the North in 1897 in search of gold and adventure. In Klondike Mike—a popular "Book of the Month Club" choice—Denison uses imagined omnipotent disclosures of his subject's thoughts to enrich his writing with a sense of immediacy. In episodic scenes, readers accompany Mahoney through mishaps and adversity: Mahoney hauling a piano on his back up the Chilkoot Pass so that the S