Call Of The Klondike

Author : David Meissner,Kim Richardson
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629797847

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Call of the Klondike by David Meissner,Kim Richardson Pdf

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.

Author : David Meissner,Kim Richardson
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781684376162

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Call of the Klondike by David Meissner,Kim Richardson Pdf

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.

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385673648

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Klondike by Pierre Berton Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780805097573

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Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush by Peter Lourie Pdf

-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 : Jack London
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307757494

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Klondike Tales by Jack London Pdf

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 : Jack London
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486110516

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The Call of the Wild by Jack London Pdf

A classic novel of adventure, drawn from London's own experiences as a Klondike adventurer, relating the story of a heroic dog caught in the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush. Note.

Author : Brian Castner
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771018701

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Stampede by Brian Castner Pdf

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 (and their pack animals) died in the attempt. The electrifying announcement in 1897 that gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities in the Klondike River region in remote Alaska was demonically well-timed to attract an exodus of economically desperate Americans. 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. Brian Castner tells the unvarnished yet always striking and often amazing truth of this greed-fuelled migration.

Author : Jennifer Duncan
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385672467

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Frontier Spirit by Jennifer Duncan Pdf

She may have been holding a gun, or an axe, or her hiked-up skirts, but she was there, in the Klondike of the Gold Rush. And her decision to venture everything on the dream of northern gold was in every way bolder and riskier than any man’s. In Frontier Spirit, Jennifer Duncan celebrates the lives of women who, in defiance of traditional expectations, left their homes, their families, and their professions, to make the arduous journey through a punishing climate and unfamiliar wilderness to seek their fortunes in the Klondike. The story of women in the Klondike begins with the strong and knowledgeable women who were there before the race for riches began -- First Nations women like Shaaw Tláa, whose experience and traditional skills were critical to the survival of her white prospector husband, and ultimately, to the discovery that sparked the Gold Rush. The white women who joined the Klondike Stampede came from all walks of life: rich and poor, educated and illiterate, single and married. Wealthy socialite Martha Black left her world of comfort to pursue a career as a miner, mill manager, and politician on the northern frontier. Belinda Mulrooney, an Irish farm girl, arrived in Dawson with a quarter to her name but used her business acumen and canny resourcefulness to turn the shantytown into a city and herself into its richest woman. And then there’s Kate Rockwell, a working-class girl from Kansas City, whose thirst for fame and adulation led her over the treacherous waters of the Whitehorse rapids and fired her ascent to the title of Queen of the Klondike. Duncan has spent the last five years experiencing Dawson City in all its seasons and, like the women who came before her, she has fallen under the spell of the North, coming to love its wilderness, its challenges, and its rugged glory. With remarkable empathy, imagination and personal insight, Duncan creates an engrossing portrait of the splendour of the Yukon, breathing life into the stories of the daring and diverse women of the Klondike and the grandeur of the adventurers who gambled everything to find their fortunes there.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:929791209

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The Call of the Wild, and Other Stories by Jack London Pdf

Author : William Henry Pope Jarvis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732699049

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The Great Gold Rush by William Henry Pope Jarvis Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Great Gold Rush by William Henry Pope Jarvis

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101105245

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The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories by Jack London Pdf

The Call of the Wild is Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Harrison Ford! Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, Jack London, one of America’s most popular authors, drew the inspiration for his robust tales of perilous adventure and animal cunning. Swiftly paced and vividly written, the novel and five short stories included here capture the main theme of London’s work: the law of the club and the fang—man’s instinctive reversion to primitive behavior when pitted against the brute force of nature. Includes The Call of the Wild, Diable: A Dog, An Odyssey of the North, To the Man on the Trail, To Build a Fire, and Love of Life

Author : Genevieve Graham
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501193392

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At the Mountain's Edge by Genevieve Graham Pdf

From bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a sweeping new historical novel of love, tragedy, and redemption set during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. In 1897, the discovery of gold in the desolate reaches of the Yukon has the world abuzz with excitement, and thousands of prospectors swarm to the north seeking riches the likes of which have never been seen before. For Liza Peterson and her family, the gold rush is a chance for them to make a fortune by moving their general store business from Vancouver to Dawson City, the only established town in the Yukon. For Constable Ben Turner, a recent recruit of the North-West Mounted Police, upholding the law in a place overrun with guns, liquor, prostitutes, and thieves is an opportunity to escape a dark past and become the man of integrity he has always wanted to be. But the long, difficult journey over icy mountain passes and whitewater rapids is much more treacherous than Liza or Ben imagined, and neither is completely prepared for the forbidding north. As Liza’s family nears the mountain’s peak, a catastrophe strikes with fatal consequences, and not even the NWMP can help. Alone and desperate, Liza finally reaches Dawson City, only to find herself in a different kind of peril. Meanwhile, Ben, wracked with guilt over the accident on the trail, sees the chance to make things right. But just as love begins to grow, new dangers arise, threatening to separate the couple forever. Inspired by history as rich as the Klondike’s gold, At the Mountain’s Edge is an epic tale of romance and adventure about two people who must let go of the past not only to be together, but also to survive.

Author : James Oliver Curwood
Publisher : LCI
Page : 4231 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Works by James Oliver Curwood (Illustrated, 22 books) by James Oliver Curwood Pdf

This ebook is illustrated with 29 original pictures from the books. Here's the contents of this ebook : FICTION : 1908 The Courage of Captain Plum 1908 The Wolf Hunters 1909 The Gold Hunters 1910 The Danger Trail 1911 The Honor of the Big Snows 1911 Philip Steele (Steele of the Royal Mounted) 1912 Flower of the North 1913 Isobel 1914 Kazan 1915 God's Country and the Woman 1916 The Hunted Woman 1916 The Grizzly King 1917 Baree, Son of Kazan 1918 The Courage of Marge O'Doone 1919 Nomads of the North 1919 The River's End 1920 Back to God's Country 1920 The Valley of Silent Men 1921 The Golden Snare 1921 The Flaming Forest 1922 The Country Beyond 1923 The Alaskan PAPERS : 1915 Thomas Jefferson Brown (Gretest short stories) Note : New books will be made available in future versions.

Author : Bernard A. Drew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317928942

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Motion Picture Series and Sequels by Bernard A. Drew Pdf

In 1989 alone, for example, there were some forty-five major motion pictures which were sequels or part of a series. The film series phenomenon crosses all genres and has been around since the silent film era. This reference guide, in alphabetical order, lists some 906 English Language motion pictures, from 1899 to 1990, when the book was initially published. A brief plot description is given for each series entry, followed by the individual film titles with corresponding years, directors and performers. Animated pictures, documentaries and concert films are not included but movies released direct to video are.

Author : Will Hobbs
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061963698

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Jason's Gold by Will Hobbs Pdf

"Gold!" Jason shouted at the top of his lungs. "Read all about it! Gold discovered in Alaska!" Within hours of hearing the thrilling news, fifteen-year-old Jason Hawthorn jumps a train for Seattle, stow away on a ship bound for the goldfields, and joins thousands of fellow prospectors attempting the difficult journey to the Klondike. The Dead Horse Trail, the infamous Chilkott Pass, and a five-hundred-mile trip by canoe down the Yukon River lie ahead. With help from a young writer named Jack London, Jason and his dog face moose, bears, and the terrors of a subartic winter in this bone-chilling survival story. 00-01 Tayshas High School Reading List, 01-02 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Gr 4-6), 01-02 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Gr 6-8), 01-02 William Allen White Children's Book Award Masterlist, and 01 Heartland Award for Excellence in YA Lit Finalist Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council, 2000 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA), and 2000 Quick Picks for Young Adults (Recomm. Books for Reluctant Young Readers)