The Klondike Stampede
Author | : Tappan Adney |
Publisher | : New York ; London : Harper & bros. |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tappan Adney |
Publisher | : New York ; London : Harper & bros. |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian Castner |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 077101869X |
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 | : Peter Lourie |
Publisher | : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2017-03-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0805097570 |
-A middle grade biography of Jack London that sheds light on how he drew upon adventure and life experience to create works of literature---
Author | : Charlotte Gray |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2011-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1582437653 |
Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of over thirty thousand people. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush in history. Scurvy, dysentery, frostbite, and starvation stalked all who dared to be in Dawson. And yet the possibilities attracted people from all walks of life—not only prospectors but also newspapermen, bankers, prostitutes, priests, and lawmen. Gold Diggers follows six stampeders—Bill Haskell, a farm boy who hungered for striking gold; Father Judge, a Jesuit priest who aimed to save souls and lives; Belinda Mulrooney, a twenty–four–year–old who became the richest businesswoman in town; Flora Shaw, a journalist who transformed the town's governance; Sam Steele, the officer who finally established order in the lawless town; and most famously Jack London, who left without gold, but with the stories that would make him a legend. Drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and stories, Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling tale of the gold madness that swept through a continent and changed a landscape and its people forever.
Author | : Wallis R. Sanborn |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2017-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476628122 |
Life was harsh and dangerous for the prospectors of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898-1899. But it was also a grand adventure. Few got rich but those who survived had a tale to tell. Wallis R. Sanborn's entertaining narrative of his journey from Illinois to the Yukon provides rare insight into the daily lives of the Klondike stampeders. He describes through his letters and diary what they ate, what they wore, the trails they mushed, the roadhouses and tents in which they slept, and the mining process. His original sketches--capturing the natural world around him, his cabin and hand-crafted furniture--and his hand-drawn maps are included, along with photographs, handbills, travel receipts and miner's certificates.
Author | : Tappan Adney |
Publisher | : Sagwan Press |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2015-08-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781340019150 |
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Author | : Robert McCahon Dickey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : 9780965793803 |
Author | : Robert D. Turner |
Publisher | : Harbour Publishing |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781550178876 |
Now available from Harbour Publishing! A lavishly illustrated volume of Klondike frontier history.
Author | : Adney Tappan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780243839933 |
Author | : Pierre Berton |
Publisher | : Martino Fine Books |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2010-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781578989645 |
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.