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Author | : Pierre Berton |
Publisher | : Martino Fine Books |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2010-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781578989645 |
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2010 Reprint of 1958 edition. This thrilling story of the Klondike Gold Rush is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Some of the anecdotes of the last great gold rush have been told by others, but Pierre Berton is the first to distill the Klondike experience into a single, complete, coherent and immensely dramatic narrative. He spent 12 years in Dawson City researching the work. The entire tale has an epic ring, as much because of its splendid folly as because of its color and motion. The full story has never been told before, nor has it been told in this dramatic way.
Author | : Pierre Berton |
Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2011-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385673647 |
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With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a poker game; and Roddy Connors, who danced away a fortune at a dollar a dance. We meet dance-hall queens, paupers turned millionaires, missionaries and entrepreneurs, and legendary Mounties such as Sam Steele, the Lion of the Yukon. Pierre Berton's riveting account reveals to us the spectacle of the Chilkoot Pass, and the terrors of lesser-known trails through the swamps of British Columbia, across the glaciers of souther Alaska, and up the icy streams of the Mackenzie Mountains. It contrasts the lawless frontier life on the American side of the border to the relative safety of Dawson City. Winner of the Governor General's award for non-fiction, Klondike is authentic history and grand entertainment, and a must-read for anyone interested in the Canadian frontier.
Author | : Barbara Greenwood |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780613503129 |
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"You're crazy to think you'll strike it rich. Crazy, crazy, crazy!" Aunt Rachel isn't very happy about 13-year-old Tim and his older brother, Roy, heading off to the Klondike Gold Rush. But times are tough and getting worse. The possibility of discovering riches, however slim, is hard to resist. The trip from Seattle to the Yukon is torturous and filled with dangers. Blinding snowstorms, a hazardous mountain range and raging rapids stand between the prospectors and their chance to hit "paydirt." And of the 30 000 who do make it all the way to Dawson, only a small percentage will ever strike gold. Even so, Roy is determined to come back a rich man. And Tim, a budding writer, is looking to find the story of a lifetime. Their year in the gold fields is filled with exhausting travel, backbreaking work and bitter feuding. As the two brothers face increasing tensions and hardships, even all the gold in the world may not be enough to save their family. Book jacket.
Author | : Michael L. Cooper |
Publisher | : Clarion Books |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780395547847 |
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Describes how, in the summer of 1896, hundreds of propectors rushed to the Klondike River in Canada because of a rumor that gold had been found there.
Author | : Brian Castner |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 077101869X |
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A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them (and their pack animals) died in the attempt. The electrifying announcement in 1897 that gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities in the Klondike River region in remote Alaska was demonically well-timed to attract an exodus of economically desperate Americans. Within weeks, tens of thousands of them were embarking from western ports to throw themselves at some of the harshest terrain on the planet--in winter, yet--woefully unprepared, with no experience at all in mining or mountaineering. It was a mass delusion that quickly proved deadly. Brian Castner tells the unvarnished yet always striking and often amazing truth of this greed-fuelled migration.
Author | : David Meissner |
Publisher | : Boyds Mills Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2016-11-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1629797847 |
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Winner of the Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction The remarkable tale of two young men during the Klondike Gold Rush, told through first-hand diaries, letters, and more—“excellent reading” for middle grade fans of The Call of the Wild and adventure stories (School Library Journal) As thousands head north in search of gold, Marshall Bond and Stanley Pearce join them, booking passage on a steamship bound for the Klondike goldfields. The journey is life threatening, but the two friends make it to Dawson City, in Canada, build a cabin, and meet Jack London—all the while searching for the ultimate reward: gold! A riveting, true, action-packed adventure, with their telegrams, diaries, and letters, as well as newspaper articles and photographs. An author’s note, timeline, bibliography, and further resources encourage readers to dig deeper into the Gold Rush era.
Author | : Robert McCahon Dickey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : 9780965793803 |
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Author | : Laura Beatrice Berton |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2018-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789120594 |
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First published in 1954, this is a true story of love and adventure which traces the history of Dawson City through the eyes of a young schoolteacher from Canada and the penniless Yukon miner she married... “This is a brave book. It is a record of a woman’s courage and devotion in a hostile land. It is the story of a refined and sensitive girl who found happiness the hard way, and triumphed over conditions that would have driven most women to distraction. It is also a tribute to a husband who with hand, heart and head was outstanding in a world of worthy men. “I have read many books on the Yukon, but this is different...It is the gallant personality of the author which shines on every page, and makes her chronicle a saga of the High North.” (Robert W. Service, Preface)
Author | : Kate Bridges |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2008-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 142681528X |
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Sexy Mountie Dylan Wayburn is having a bad day. Disguised as a drifter, he fetches up in the same stagecoach as Lily Cromwell, a beautiful redhead who was once a family servant. She could blow his cover sky-high. Then their stagecoach is held up at gunpoint—because everyone knows that Lily has struck gold. Pretending to be married to search for the gang who've stolen Klondike Lily's fortune leaves Dylan very, very close to the woman he should protect. He'll try and fight the flames of his desire...but how can he ignore the full lips begging to be kissed?
Author | : Alvin Robert Cunningham |
Publisher | : Settling the West II |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Klondike River Valley (Yukon) |
ISBN | : 9780756914943 |
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Andrew Hart and his father hire two Han Athabascan Indians as packers, and they all travel to the town of Dawson near the Klondike goldfields.