Arthur Treadgold: Guardian Klondike correspondent - archive, 16 January 1964

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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