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Author | : Stan Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780933126480 |
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Situated at the head of Lynn Canal are two sites of much importance to the history of the Kondike Gold Rush, one of the greatest adventures North America has known. At the mounth of the Taiya River is the abandoned site of Dyea, once the gateway to the Chilkoot Trail and the water route to the interior of the Yukon. Four miles to the southeast of Dyea, at the mouth of the Skagway River, lies the other major gateway to the goldfields by way of the White Pass Trail�Skagway. The early history of these two towns in interrelated but today they are vastly different. Dyea has gone the way of the gold rush towns of the late 2800s and early 1900s�it has crumbled to the dust from which it sprang in 1897. Skagway has fared better, and along with Dawson City and a few other remains, it represents the last vestiges of the gold rush.
Author | : M. J. Kirchhoff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Dyea (Skagway, Alaska) |
ISBN | : 9780962490446 |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (Alaska and Seattle, Wash.) |
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Author | : David Wharton |
Publisher | : Bloomington: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253100610 |
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Reconstructs the personalities, events, trading settlements and major strikes which produced the Alaska gold-mining boom.
Author | : Howard Clifford |
Publisher | : Anchorage [Alaska] : Alaska Northwest Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Skagway (Alaska) |
ISBN | : 9780882400464 |
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Skagways' past as a rip-roaring gold rush town is captured in The Skagway Story. This intriguing little book is just like a scrapbook, filled with photographs from dusty trunks in attics, recollections from pioneers who were there, and memorabilia of long-buried local residents. Learn about the glory days of Skagway, known as the Gateway to the Klondike--the discovery of the Klondike goldfields in 1896, the ordeal of the stampeders trudging over the grueling Chilkoot Pass in the winter of 1897, the 1898 shootout between con man Soapy Smith and city official Frank Reid, the completion of the narrow-guage White Pass & Yukon Route railroad in 1900, and other milestones in the history of the North's most famous bonanza.
Author | : Preston Jones |
Publisher | : University of Alaska Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1889963895 |
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In 1898, Nome, Alaska, burst into the American consciousness when one of the largest gold strikes in the world occurred on its shores. Over the next ten years, Nome’s population exploded as both men and women came north to seek their fortunes. Closer to Siberia than to New York, Nome’s citizens created their own version of small-town America on the northern frontier. Less than 150 miles from the Arctic Circle, they weathered the Great War and the diphtheria epidemic of 1925 as well as floods, fires, and the Great Depression. They enlivened the Alaska winters with pastimes such as high-school basketball and social clubs. Empire’s Edge is the story of how ordinary Americans made a life on the edge of a continent—a life both ordinary and extraordinary.
Author | : Charles Anson Margeson |
Publisher | : [Hornellsville, N.Y.] : The author |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Alaska |
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Experiences of Gold Hunters in Alaska is a classic account of the Valdez-Copper River phase of the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1898 and a topnotch narrative of a real-life Alaskan adventure. Unlike most written histories of that gold rush that tell of the passage to Dyea or Skagway, over the Chilkoot Pass and White Pass, and down to the Klondike fields in Yukon, Charles Margeson tells the story that he and 3500 other gold seekers experienced as they traversed the Valdez Glacier and descended the Klutina River to the Copper River. The author describes his journey beginning in Missouri in 1897 and resulted in a trip from Seattle to Alaska and back to Seattle in 1898. The book covers the early story of Valdez and the hazards encountered in the Tonsena (now Tonsina) Valley. Although they discovered little gold, their quest made a difference for their efforts resulted in the exploration and development of much of Southcentral and Interior Alaska. They established the port city of Valdez which was to become the major transportation and shipping corridor from interior to coastal Alaska--a corridor now more famous for its black than yellow gold.
Author | : Catherine Holder Spude |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Roy Minter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Klondike River Valley (Yukon) |
ISBN | : 9780912006338 |
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By the thousands they came, the gold-seekers of 1897, pouring through Alaska's White and Chilkoot passes on their way to the Klondike and to fortune. Fast behind them came the entrepreneurs, the bunco artists, and before long, the engineers and financiers whose driving ambition was to build a railway through the White Pass's rocky precipices. This is the epic northern adventure of the men who rushed for gold, the workers who toiled in winter storms and thaw-time muck, carving the grade and laying rail, and the ingenious characters who dreamed, schemed, promoted, and finally built the White Pass and Yukon Railway.
Author | : Charles a Margeson |
Publisher | : Andesite Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2015-08-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781297819810 |
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