The Klondike Fever The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush
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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 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.
Klondike Fever
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Author : Pierre Berton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-12-10
Klondike Fever 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 2003-12-10 with categories.
In 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion the incredible succession of events that Pierre Berton's exhilarating The Klondike Fever chronicles in all its splendid and astonishing folly. For the steamer Portland bore two tons of pure Klondike gold. And immediately, the stampede north to Alaska began. Easily as many as 100,000 adventurers, dreamers, and would-be miners from all over the world struck out for the remote, isolated gold fields in the Klondike Valley, most of them in total ignorance of the long, harsh Alaskan winters and the territory's indomitable terrain. Less than a third of that number would complete the enormously arduous mountain journey to their destination. Some would strike gold. Berton's story belongs less to the few who would make their fortunes than to the many swept up in the gold mania, to often unfortunate effects and tragic ends. It is a story of cold skies and avalanches, of con men and gamblers and dance hall girls, of sunken ships, of suicides, of dead horses and desperate men, of grizzly old miners and millionaires, of the land - its exploitation and revenge. It is a story of the human capacity to dream, and to endure.
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.
The Klondike Fever
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Author : Pierre Berton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Klondike Fever 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 1985 with Klondike River Valley (Yukon) categories.
Klondike Fever
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Author : Pierre Berton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Klondike Fever 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 1958 with Klondike River Valley (Yukon) categories.
Klondike Fever
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Author : Alvin Robert Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: Settling the West II
Release Date : 2003
Klondike Fever written by Alvin Robert Cunningham and has been published by Settling the West II this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Klondike River Valley (Yukon) categories.
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.
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 Biography & Autobiography categories.
Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.
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.
Two Years In The Klondike And Alaskan Gold Fields
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Author : William B. Haskell
language : en
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Hartford Publishing Company
Release Date : 1898
Two Years In The Klondike And Alaskan Gold Fields written by William B. Haskell and has been published by Hartford, Conn. : Hartford Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Alaska categories.
Account of the author's boyhood and experiences during the Klondike gold rush.