The Klondike Stampede Classic Reprint

Author : Tappan Adney
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0774804904

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The Klondike Stampede by Tappan Adney Pdf

This classic in Yukon gold rush literature was originally published in 1900 and has long been out of print. Tappan Adney, a New York journalist, was dispatched to the Yukon in 1897, at the height of the gold fever, to "furnish news and pictures of the new gold fields," Adney joined the northward migration, chronicling the day-to-day experiences of the stampeders. He moved comfortably among the would-be miners, recounting their stories, the sights along the route, and the hopes and feards of the many men - and handful of women - who shared his journey to the gold fields. The book contains excellent descriptions of the people, places, events, and experiences of the Klondike stampede. The account ot the Klondike gold fields, which includes pragmatic discussions of such things as ming techniques, cabin-building, and the operation of dog teams, is solid, reliable, and facinating. Adney was not only a good writer, he was also an accomplished photographer, and there are over 150 photographs and drawings in the text, adding an important visual dimension to the book. After it came out, The Klondike Stampede rarely received the attention it deserved, although northern specialists have long found much of value in its pages. Its re-publication will ensure that this valuable book will be read again by those seeking an insightful and accurate account of the world's greatest gold rush.

Author : Tappan Adney
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1440059942

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The Klondike Stampede (Classic Reprint) by Tappan Adney Pdf

Excerpt from The Klondike Stampede Former Hudson's Bay Post - Present Alaska Commercial Company Store - Talks with the Storekeeper - More about the Shortage of Grub - Start from Fort Selkirk - Heavy Ice - Below Zero - Miners Hauled Out, Waiting for River to Clear - Dangers of the Heavy Ice - Stewart River - Accident in the Sweepers - sixty-mile Post. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Samuel Hall Young
Publisher : New York : F.H. Revell
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
ISBN : UCAL:$B312881

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The Klondike Clan by Samuel Hall Young Pdf

Author : S. Hall Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1330598709

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The Klondike Clan by S. Hall Young Pdf

Excerpt from The Klondike Clan: A Tale of the Great Stampede Chilkoot Pass And you, too, banged at the Chilkoot, That rock-locked gate to the golden door! These thunder-built steeps have words built to suit, And whether you prayed or whether you swore 'Twere one where it seemed that an oath was a prayer Seemed God couldn't care, Seemed God wasn't there! And you, too, climbed to the Klondike And talked, as a friend, to those five-horned stars! With muckluck shoon and with talspike You, too, bared head to the bars, The heaven-built bars where morning is born. And drank with maiden morn From Klondike's golden horn! And you, too, read by the North lights Such sermons as never men say! You sat and sat with the midnights That sit and that sit all day: You heard the silence, you heard the room. Heard the glory of God in the gloom Where the icebergs boom and boom! Then come to my Sunland, my soldier. Aye, come to my heart and to stay; For better crusader or bolder Bared never a breast to the fray. And whether you prayed or whether you cursed You dared the best and you dared the worst That ever brave man durst. Joaquin Miller. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Samuel Hall Young
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1290466467

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The Klondike Clan by Samuel Hall Young Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Samuel Hall Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
ISBN : 066578905X

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The Klondike Clan [microform] : a Tale of the Great Stampede by Samuel Hall Young Pdf

Author : Pierre Berton,Van der Linde, Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0771014333

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The Klondike Stampede by Pierre Berton,Van der Linde, Henry Pdf

Story of the Klondike gold rush of 1896-1899. Suitable for pre-teen and young teenage readers.

Author : Edwin Tappan Adney
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1015410049

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The Klondike Stampede by Edwin Tappan Adney Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Wallis R. Sanborn,Wallis R. Sanborn, III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786496518

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The Klondike Stampede by Wallis R. Sanborn,Wallis R. Sanborn, III Pdf

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.

Author : George Charles Fraser Pringle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1330697235

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Tillicums of the Trail by George Charles Fraser Pringle Pdf

Excerpt from Tillicums of the Trail: Being Klondike Yarns Told to Canadian Soldiers Overseas by a Sourdough Padre Stampede had their own appeal, when the gol den treasures were found and adventurers from the Seven Seas rushed to the discovery. What days those were, filled with tragedy and comedy, shameful things we would fain forget but can't, incidents too of heroism and comradeship that will live in our memories forever, and through it all, bad and good, an intense, throbbing life that was irresistibly fascinating. Little wonder that my soldiers, out themselves on a great ad venture, would listen to stories Of the Yukon and its adventurers in those glorious Stampede days. Many an hour have I spent with my men Off duty spinning these sourdough yarns, and I know very Often we forgot for the time the dug out and the trench, hardly hearing the boom Of the guns or bursting shells. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Brian Castner
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Samuel Hall Young
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0267817118

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Adventures in Alaska (Classic Reprint) by Samuel Hall Young Pdf

Excerpt from Adventures in Alaska As in his earlier work, The Klondike Clan, the author endeavored to draw a true picture not only of the life and conditions of the first Northwestern gold-rush, but also of the minister's aims and field of duty; so in this short sketch of the second Stampede his aim has been, above all things, truth. 'every incident is actual history, and even the names are real. The dog story is also con scientiously true history, and belongs to one of the minor gold stampedes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Alaska
ISBN : UOM:39015074910004

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Alaska History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Don Pitcher
Publisher : Moon Travel
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781612380636

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Moon Alaska by Don Pitcher Pdf

Travel writer and nature photographer Don Pitcher covers the best of Alaska, from fine dining in Anchorage to backpacking in Denali National Park. Pitcher also includes various travel strategies such as The Best of Alaska and Along the AlCan. Complete with details on where to view wildlife at the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge and the best spots to kayak in Prince William Sound, Moon Alaska gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.