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Author : William Henry Pope Jarvis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732699049
Reproduction of the original: The Great Gold Rush by William Henry Pope Jarvis
Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385673648
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 : W. H. P. Jarvis
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664595362
This book focuses on the fortunes of four male friends who went to seek their fortune in the late nineteenth-century gold rush in America. Not only does it expose the hardships of this pioneering life, but also the mistreatment of animals and people that was accepted as necessary and unavoidable. It also shows that in terms of greed and corruption, nothing much has changed.
Author : William Henry Pope Jarvis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:747742454
Author : David Meissner,Kim Richardson
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629797847
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 : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Martino Fine Books
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1578989647
2010 Reprint of 1958 edition. This thrilling story of the Klondike Gold Rush is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Some of the anecdotes of the last great gold rush have been told by others, but Pierre Berton is the first to distill the Klondike experience into a single, complete, coherent and immensely dramatic narrative. He spent 12 years in Dawson City researching the work. The entire tale has an epic ring, as much because of its splendid folly as because of its color and motion. The full story has never been told before, nor has it been told in this dramatic way.
Author : Barbara Greenwood
Publisher : Kids Can Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1550748505
The year is 1898. Over the last decade, North America has been ground down by a depression. Wages are low, jobs are scarce and people are getting desperate. Although Aunt Rachel isn't happy about 13-year-old Tim and his older brother, Roy, heading off to the Klondike Gold Rush, the possibility of striking it rich is hard to resist. Tim and Roy begin their trek to the Yukon filled with excitement. Little do they suspect the harsh realities they'll have to face: blinding snowstorms, raging rapids, backbreaking work and bitter disappointment. In this unique book, each chapter is followed with factual information, illustrations and photographs of the people and places of the time. In addition, easy-to-do activities help bring the historical period to life.
Author : William Henry Pope Jarvis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 0665730047
Author : Melanie J. Mayer
Publisher : Swallow Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X001652119
Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.
Author : Kathryn Morse
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295989877
In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging setting. Ever since that time, the Klondike Gold Rush - especially as portrayed in photographs of long lines of gold seekers marching up Chilkoot Pass - has had a hold on the popular imagination. In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America�s transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural laborers across the country. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times. The story Morse tells is often narrated through the diaries and letters of the miners themselves. The daunting challenges of traveling, working, and surviving in the raw wilderness are illustrated not only by the miners� compelling accounts but by newspaper reports and advertisements. Seattle played a key role as �gateway to the Klondike.� A public relations campaign lured potential miners to the West and local businesses seized the opportunity to make large profits while thousands of gold seekers streamed through Seattle. The drama of the miners� journeys north, their trials along the gold creeks, and their encounters with an extreme climate will appeal not only to scholars of the western environment and of late-19th-century industrialism, but to readers interested in reliving the vivid adventure of the West�s last great gold rush.
Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780805097573
-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 : Charlotte Foltz Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002536176
Gold fever!When the steamships Excelsior and Portland docked in San Francisco and Seattle in the spring of 1897 bringing news that gold had been discovered in the Canadian Yukon, gold fever hit. Soon thousands of stampeders from as far away as Europe were making their way to the Klondike, sure that they were going to strike it rich. Very few had even the slightest idea of just how inhospitable the Klondike was, how dangerous the journey would be, and how slim their chances were of making enough money there just to turn around and get home. With striking and often poignant archival photographs and an engaging text, Charlotte Jones explains the events leading up to the Yukon gold rush and the amazing events that followed the discovery of gold and changed Alaska forever. Maps, bibliography, and index are included.
Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786256737
“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 : David Meissner,Kim Richardson
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781684376162
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 : Brian Castner
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771018701
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.
