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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC05755.010 |
| From Archive Folder | Collections concerning the Alaskan gold rush |
| Title | Edwin B. Sherzer to Clara M. Miller about growing violence between desperate prospectors, a pneumonia epidemic amongst the Indians and the beauty of the wilds |
| Date | 27 July 1900 |
| Author | Sherzer, Edwin B. (fl. 1900-1902) |
| Recipient | Miller, Clara M. |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Says he was on a "prospecting tour." Says she wouldn't recognize him with bronzed hands, two weeks' beard, etc. Prices & problems making money: "I feel very much disheartened and discouraged and if things do not turn out better I don't know what we are going to do. We will live but that is about all. Men up here are getting in such desperate straits, they have begun to rob and murder [. . . .] We sleep with our revolvers right where we can get our hands on them [. . . .]" Mentions pneumonia epidemic among Indians at Safety; describes beauties in the wilds: "it makes you awe stricken to gaze at all these wonderful sights." Describes "Esquimaux" habits and housing. |
| Subjects | Alaska Gold Rush Frontiers and Exploration Mining Finance Crime Weaponry Epidemic Health and Medical Eskimo Geography and Natural History Personal Hygiene Mental Health |
| People | Sherzer, Edwin B. (fl. 1900-1902) Miller, Clara M. (fl. 1900-1902) |
| Place written | Nome, Alaska |
| Theme | Westward Expansion; Health & Medicine |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Recipient Relationship | Wife |