The Klondikers

The Klondikers
Author: Norman Handy
Publisher: novum pro Verlag
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2017-03-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3990487159

The Klondikers was the name given to the people that heard about the gold that was to be found around what was to become, Dawson City. It was just sitting there, waiting to be picked up by anyone who could make the challenging journey to get there. This is the recreation of a journey that one farmer from the wheat growing areas of the prairies around Calgary, may have experienced to get to the gold! His journey would involve crossing the Rockies to the western seaboard, travelling up the coast and making landfall. Then the intrepid potential gold panner had to cross the Rockies on foot and brave blizzards and freezing cold. When the weather and the ice had melted, he then had to paddle his way down 800kms of river to the goldfields. Once he arrived that was the least of his problems.

Klondikers

Klondikers
Author: Tim Falconer
Publisher: ECW Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1773058215

For readers of The Boys in the Boat and Against All Odds Join a ragtag group of misfits from Dawson City as they scrap to become the 1905 Stanley Cup champions and cement hockey as Canada’s national pastime An underdog hockey team traveled for three and a half weeks from Dawson City to Ottawa to play for the Stanley Cup in 1905. The Klondikers’ eagerness to make the journey, and the public’s enthusiastic response, revealed just how deeply, and how quickly, Canadians had fallen in love with hockey. After Governor General Stanley donated a championship trophy in 1893, new rinks appeared in big cities and small towns, leading to more players, teams, and leagues. And more fans. When Montreal challenged Winnipeg for the Cup in December 1896, supporters in both cities followed the play-by-play via telegraph updates. As the country escaped the Victorian era and entered a promising new century, a different nation was emerging. Canadians fell for hockey amid industrialization, urbanization, and shifting social and cultural attitudes. Class and race-based British ideals of amateurism attempted to fend off a more egalitarian professionalism. Ottawa star Weldy Young moved to the Yukon in 1899, and within a year was talking about a Cup challenge. With the help of Klondike businessman Joe Boyle, it finally happened six years later. Ottawa pounded the exhausted visitors, with “One-Eyed” Frank McGee scoring an astonishing 14 goals in one game. But there was no doubt hockey was now the national pastime.

The Klondike Cat

The Klondike Cat
Author: Julie Lawson
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2004-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781553377665

While heading for the Klondike to look for gold, Noah takes his cat, against his father's wishes.

The Klondike Stampede

The Klondike Stampede
Author: Tappan Adney
Publisher: New York ; London : Harper & bros.
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1899
Genre: History
ISBN:

Hard Drive to the Klondike

Hard Drive to the Klondike
Author: Lisa Mighetto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1999
Genre: Commercial geography
ISBN:

The Alaskan Klondike Gold Rush coincided with major events, including the arrival of the railroad, and it exemplified continuing trends in Seattle's history. If not the primary cause of the city's growth and prosperity, the Klondike Gold Rush nonetheless serves as a colorful reflection of the era and its themes, including the celebrated "Seattle spirit." This historic resource study examines the Klondike Gold Rush, beginning in the early 1850's with the founding of Seattle, and ending in 1909 with the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition commemorating the Klondike Gold Rush and the growth of the city. Chapter 1 describes early Seattle and the gold strikes in the Klondike, while the following three chapters analyze how the city became the gateway to the Yukon, how the stampede to the Far North stimulated local businesses, and how the city's infrastructure and boundaries changed during the era of the gold rush. Chapter 5 looks at how historians have interpreted the Klondike Gold Rush throughout the 20th century. The final chapter brings the Klondike story up to the present, describing the establishment of Seattle's Pioneer Square Historic District and the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. The chapter titles include: (1) "'By-and-By': The Early History of Seattle"; (2) "Selling Seattle"; (3) "Reaping the Profits of the Klondike Trade"; (4) "Building the City"; (5) "Interpreting the Klondike Gold Rush"; and (6) "Historic Resources in the Modern Era." Contains an extensive 147-item partially annotated bibliography; 12 appendixes contain historical documents and photographs.

Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush

Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush
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---

The Klondike Fever: The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush

The Klondike Fever: The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush
Author: Pierre Berton
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 693
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

The Klondike Clan

The Klondike Clan
Author: Samuel Hall Young
Publisher: New York : F.H. Revell
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1916
Genre: Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
ISBN:

The Klondike Stampede

The Klondike Stampede
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.