New York, NY: The MacMillan Company, 1940. First Printing (stated). Hardcover. xiv, [2], 309 pages. Pencil erasure residue and stamp on fep. Front board weak, restrengthened with glue. Includes Foreword by Her Late Majesty, Queen Marie of Rumania, Introduction by the author, and Prologue. Part One: King of the Klondike; Part Two: From Dawson to the Danube; Part Three: The Pillar of a Throne. Includes six full page black and white illustrations: Klondike Boyle in Rumania (on the Frontispiece), The Trail of Ninety-eight, In the Yukon, General Brusiloff, General Korniloff, and Queen Marie of Rumania and Princess Ileana. Joseph Whiteside Boyle DSO (6 November 1867 – 14 April 1923), better known as Klondike Joe Boyle, was a Canadian adventurer who became a businessman and entrepreneur in the United Kingdom. During World War I, Boyle organized a machine gun company. In July 1917, Boyle undertook a mission to Russia on behalf of the American Committee of Engineers in London to help reorganize the country’s railway system. Boyle, in cooperation with Captain George Alexander Hill, a Russian-speaking member of the British secret service, carried out clandestine operations against German and Bolshevik forces in Bessarabia and southwestern Russia. Just one of their many exploits together had been secreting the Romanian crown jewels and Romanian treasury out of the Kremlin and back into Romania. On the Queen's behalf, Boyle organized millions of dollars of Canadian relief for Romanians, earning the title of hero. He was decorated by the governments of Russia, France, Britain and Romania. He was awarded the special title of "Saviour of Romania" More