Burr Cook

The Year of the Gold Rush Burr Cook

This Novelette "The Year of the Gold Rush" begins on board a steamship headed for Dyea Alaska during the gold rush of 1898/99 when over 50,000 amateur prospectors traveled to the emerging city of Dawson where the Yukon River meets the Klondike. Few got rich and many perished during the great adventure. "The Hero" is a story that I have tried to make plausible but call it Science Fiction; but only because it has never happened before although with a stretch of the imagination one could make it appear real. It takes place in the small Upstate City of Geneva, New York which is on Seneca Lake; one of the Finger Lakes. The story line comes from the imagination of my second son, Burr Jr. The book also contains a sequel to "The Hero" plus six more short stories.