Arthur Treadgold: Guardian Klondike correspondent - archive, 16 January 1964
by Mary Treadgold from World news | The Guardian on (#472YM)
16 January 1964 Remembering Arthur Christian Newton Treadgold who reported from the Canadian goldfields in the 1890s
Arthur Christian Newton Treadgold, whose dispatches from the Yukon lie in the 1898 files of the then Manchester Guardian, was the most thrusting pioneer of the great Klondike gold rush. He was also the most powerful. This little thickset man from a Lincolnshire yeoman family, a collateral descendant of Sir Isaac Newton, a classics graduate of Oxford, and a Blue, had both the brain - brilliant, ranging, dynamic, above all, tenacious (he was known as the Klondike Spider) - and the incredibly formidable physique for sustaining all he did.
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