Klondike The Last Great Gold Rush
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Klondike
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Author : Pierre Berton
language : en
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Release Date : 2011-02-11
Klondike written by Pierre Berton and has been published by Anchor Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-11 with History categories.
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.
Klondike
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Author : Pierre Berton
language : en
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Release Date : 2001-10-09
Klondike written by Pierre Berton and has been published by Anchor Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-09 with History categories.
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.
The Klondike Fever The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush
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Author : Pierre Berton
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-06
The Klondike Fever The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush written by Pierre Berton and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-06 with History categories.
“Absolutely first-rate.”—The New Yorker This thrilling story is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Incredible events occurred in North America after a decrepit steamboat docked at Seattle in 1897 containing two tons of pure gold. So frenzied was the clash for gold and so scant was information about conditions in the Klondike that the rush for riches became a kind of fabulous madness. The entire tale—of which Pierre Berton’s account is the definitive telling—has an epic ring (legends were lived and fortunes were won) as much because of its splendid folly as because of its color and motion. “The definitive account of an affair as wildly improbable as any in North American history.”—Saturday Review “A lively saga of the great gold rush. It is the most complete and most authentic on the subject in English.”—The New York Times Book Review
The Great Gold Rush A Tale Of The Klondike
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Author : W. H. P. Jarvis
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-04-25
The Great Gold Rush A Tale Of The Klondike written by W. H. P. Jarvis and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-25 with Fiction categories.
This book focuses on the fortunes of four male friends who went to seek their fortune in the late nineteenth-century gold rush in America. Not only does it expose the hardships of this pioneering life, but also the mistreatment of animals and people that was accepted as necessary and unavoidable. It also shows that in terms of greed and corruption, nothing much has changed.
The Nature Of Gold
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Author : Kathryn Morse
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2009-11-23
The Nature Of Gold written by Kathryn Morse and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-23 with History categories.
In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging setting. Ever since that time, the Klondike Gold Rush - especially as portrayed in photographs of long lines of gold seekers marching up Chilkoot Pass - has had a hold on the popular imagination. In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America�s transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural laborers across the country. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times. The story Morse tells is often narrated through the diaries and letters of the miners themselves. The daunting challenges of traveling, working, and surviving in the raw wilderness are illustrated not only by the miners� compelling accounts but by newspaper reports and advertisements. Seattle played a key role as �gateway to the Klondike.� A public relations campaign lured potential miners to the West and local businesses seized the opportunity to make large profits while thousands of gold seekers streamed through Seattle. The drama of the miners� journeys north, their trials along the gold creeks, and their encounters with an extreme climate will appeal not only to scholars of the western environment and of late-19th-century industrialism, but to readers interested in reliving the vivid adventure of the West�s last great gold rush.
Call Of The Klondike
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Author : David Meissner
language : en
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Release Date : 2016-11-04
Call Of The Klondike written by David Meissner and has been published by Boyds Mills Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-04 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
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.
Klondike Women
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Author : Melanie J. Mayer
language : en
Publisher: Swallow Press
Release Date : 1989
Klondike Women written by Melanie J. Mayer and has been published by Swallow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.
The Klondike Stampede
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Author : Tappan Adney
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
The Klondike Stampede written by Tappan Adney and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with History categories.
This classic in Yukon gold rush literature was originally published in 1900 and has long been out of print. Tappan Adney, a New York journalist, was dispatched to the Yukon in 1897, at the height of the gold fever, to 'furnish news and pictures of the new gold fields.' The pages contain excellent descriptions of the people, places, events, and experiences of the Klondike stampede. Adney was not only a good writer, he was also an accomplished photographer, and there are over 150 photographs and drawings in the text, adding an important visual dimension to the book.
The Klondike Fever The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush Original Edition
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Author : Pierre Berton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-12-16
The Klondike Fever The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush Original Edition written by Pierre Berton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-16 with History categories.
Gold Diggers
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Author : Charlotte Gray
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2011-08-23
Gold Diggers written by Charlotte Gray and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-23 with History categories.
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.