The Klondike Fever The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush Original Edition
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Author | : Pierre Berton |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786256738 |
“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
Author | : Pierre Berton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781773239286 |
Author | : Melanie J. Mayer |
Publisher | : Swallow Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.
Author | : Pierre Berton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1958 |
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Author | : Laura Beatrice Berton |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2018-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789120594 |
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 | : Jack London |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2010-06-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307757498 |
As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’s best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the punishing adversity that awaited men in the brutal, frozen expanses of the Yukon, and the extreme tactics these adventurers and travelers adopted to survive. As Van Wyck Brooks observed, “One felt that the stories had been somehow lived–that they were not merely observed–that the author was not telling tales but telling his life.” This edition is unique to the Modern Library, featuring twenty-three carefully chosen stories from London’s three collected Northland volumes and his later Klondike tales. It also includes two maps of the region, and notes on the text.
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 | : 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 | : Brian Castner |
Publisher | : Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385544510 |
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 died in the attempt. In 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities at the Klondike River region of the Yukon, a mob of economically desperate Americans swarmed north. 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: avalanches, shipwrecks, starvation, murder. Upon this stage, author Brian Castner tells a relentlessly driving story of the gold rush through the individual experiences of the iconic characters who endured it. A young Jack London, who would make his fortune but not in gold. Colonel Samuel Steele, who tried to save the stampeders from themselves. The notorious gangster Soapy Smith, goodtime girls and desperate miners, Skookum Jim, and the hotel entrepreneur Belinda Mulrooney. The unvarnished tale of this mass migration is always striking, revealing the amazing truth of what people will do for a chance to be rich.
Author | : Tappan Adney |
Publisher | : New York ; London : Harper & bros. |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : History |
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