Edward A. Loy will have a book signing of “Chasing the Echo” at the Albany Regional Museum. Ed will say a few words about the work to start but the event is primarily an opportunity to meet the author and pick-up a signed copy of the book.

The Klondike Gold Rush meant more than gold to one man. This is his story.

“Chasing the Echo - Charles W. Watts & the Call of the Klondike” is the latest book by local author and historian Edward A. Loy. What compels a man to leave his wife and family, his work and his hometown to embark on an arduous, dangerous journey that at its end may bring him little besides deprivation, lonelines, broken health and empty pockets? In electing to go to the Klondike, Charles William “Charley” Watts joined thousands of other men who made that perplexing, life-changing decision.

Charley’s 79 letters to his wife and daughter provide clues to his motives. It is from these letters that Mr. Loy has pieced together the story of Charles Watts journey to the Klondike.