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Record W4255850282 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2017.0209

Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush by Peter Lourie

2017· article· en· W4255850282 on OpenAlex
Elizabeth Bush

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicAmerican and British Literature Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGold rushAdventureWhite (mutation)PopulationArt historyHistoryArtSociologyDemographyArchaeology

Abstract

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Reviewed by: Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush by Peter Lourie Elizabeth Bush Lourie, Peter Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush; illus. by Wendell Minor and with photographs. Ottaviano/Holt, 2017 [192p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-8050-9757-3 $18.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-8050-9758-0 $9.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 5-8 Kids who find Call of the Wild or White Fang on a required reading list eventually learn that author Jack London had experienced the Yukon first hand. Lourie’s account finds London well before his writing days, focusing solely on London’s 1897 trek into the Klondike gold fields—a bit too late for the initial big strikes that set off the Stampede, and a bit too early for the human onslaught that would swell the population of Dawson and leave thousands of fortune seekers destitute. Lourie’s command of the Stampeders’ trials is first rate, and London’s personal experiences are in many ways typical of the 1897 adventurers who invested all they had, fought their way over the Chilkoot Pass, braved the rapids on their way to Dawson in leaky handmade boats, and arrived (if they were very lucky) in time to stake and register claims that would change their lives. Indeed, like so many of his fellow adventurers, London’s life did change—just not in the way he had envisioned. Forced by scurvy to leave after one season, London returned with plots, observations, and character studies that would make him, “at the age of twenty-seven … the most famous and highly paid writer in the world.” Though Lourie takes a liberty or two in his text and Minor’s gauzy black and white scenes are expendable, this will [End Page 323] nonetheless scratch the itch for readers who love a great true adventure tale, and if it scores them bonus points with the English teacher, so much the better. An index, timeline, and glossary are included. Copyright © 2017 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.371
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.005
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.190
Teacher spread0.184 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it