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| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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 | : 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 | : John William Leonard |
| Publisher | : London : T.F. Unwin |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 1897 |
| Genre | : Klondike River Valley (Yukon) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Samuel Hall Young |
| Publisher | : New York : F.H. Revell |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1916 |
| Genre | : Klondike River Valley (Yukon) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Tappan Adney |
| Publisher | : New York ; London : Harper & bros. |
| Total Pages | : 506 |
| Release | : 1899 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : James Grierson MacGregor |
| Publisher | : Toronto [etc.] : McClelland and Stewart |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : Alberta |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Don McCune |
| Publisher | : Pullman : Washington State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
When the ship Portland steamed into Seattle in the summer of 1897 with more than a ton of gold, it set off an around-the-world fever, launched Seattle as the Queen City of the Northwest, and initiated one of the most extraordinary treks in American history. In the brutally cold winter of 1897-98, 100,000 people, drawn by the glitter of chance and fortune, stampeded north to the gold fields of the Yukon. In 1969-70, Don McCune - for twenty-one years writer and narrator of KOMO TV's Emmy Award winning program, Exploration Northwest - retraced the Klondikers' trail with his camera crew, producing five episodes on the gold rush. That experience inspired McCune to write the manuscript for this book, which includes contemporary accounts by stampeders combined with observations by the Exploration Northwest crew of the trail as it appeared more than seventy years after the gold rush. Trail to the Klondike features more than 120 photographs, including evocative images from the most accomplished of the gold rush photographers, Eric Hegg. Hegg's images are paired with those of the McCune crew to provide a then-and-now portrait of the Trail to the Klondike.
