Chilkoot Trail

Author : Archie Satterfield
Publisher : Alaska Northwest Books
ISBN 13 : 9780882401096
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chilkoot Pass, the Most Famous Trail in the North written by Archie Satterfield and published by Alaska Northwest Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additions include a chapter on the role of Seattle in the gold rush, the creation of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, a map of the trail and a guide for hikers.

Author : Frances Backhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiking with Ghosts written by Frances Backhouse and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One century ago, the lure of Klondike gold led thousands of fortune seekers over the majestic Chilkoot Pass, which rose a thousand metres from dockside in Alaska to arctic meadows on the shores of Lake Bennett in the Yukon. In this Raincoast Journeys book, experienced travel writer Frances Backhouse and acclaimed nature photographer Adrian Dorst team up to hike the arduous yet inspiring 50-kilometre trail, now a popular destination for ambitious ecotourists. Together they depict the route in all its beauty and reflect on its storied past.This is the sixth book in the Raincoast Journeys series.

Author : Barbara Steiner
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497646553
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystery at Chilkoot Pass written by Barbara Steiner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold fever sweeps the country as a twelve-year-old aspiring writer travels to the Yukon with her family and best friend, fighting natural disasters and a clever thief After traveling from San Francisco by steam ship, Hetty McKinley, her best friend, Alma, and their families prepare for the five-hundred-mile trek north to the gold fields of the Yukon. It’s only September, but the Arctic Circle is already frigid. As the two families, along with hundreds of other prospectors, camp out for the night near the outpost of Dyea, Hetty catches a glimpse of the legendary Chilkoot Pass, the narrow gap through which they’ll cross Alaska into Canada. But the next morning, Alma’s mother discovers that all their money is gone! A few days later, Hetty’s cherished locket, containing a photograph of her dead mother, disappears. More thefts soon follow, but these are the least of their problems. Soon, the group is battling typhoid, blizzards, and a terrifying avalanche. Will Hetty and her family and friends survive their journey to the top of the world? This ebook includes a historical afterword.

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385673647
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Klondike written by Pierre Berton and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Allan Ingelson
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552380556
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chilkoot written by Allan Ingelson and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly woven insight into the Chilkoot Trail and the region straddling the American-Canadian border in the Alaska and British Columbia panhandles of the Pacific Northwest. Presented in three parts: a description of the trail as a classic example of modern Ecotourism with reference to management practices and user expectations, responses, and satisfaction; a history of the trail; an illustrated presentation of the authors' experience hiking the trail. Features a captivating narrative and 101 full colour photographs.

Author : Cynthia Johnson
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9781388355067
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiking The Chilkoot Trail written by Cynthia Johnson and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reality of hiking the Chilkoot Pass Trail located in the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park as it exists today.

Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0805097570
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush written by Peter Lourie and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -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 : United States. National Park Service. Park Historic Structures and Cultural Landscapes Program
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports written by United States. National Park Service. Park Historic Structures and Cultural Landscapes Program and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Gates
Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550175707
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dalton's Gold Rush Trail written by Michael Gates and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Klondike, with its harrowing narratives of climbing the Chilkoot and White passes, braving the rapids of the Yukon River and striking it rich only to go broke again, has become legend. Yet there are still more untold stories that linger in the boarded-up ghost towns, forgotten wilderness cabins and along overgrown trails. Yukon historian Michael Gates has made a career of poking around both the archives and the outdoors of the North. Used as a trading route by the Chilkat Tlingit for centuries, the Dalton Trail was taken over by Jack Dalton, a hard driving, murdering, entrepreneurial adventurer, who built bridges and way stations and set up a toll booth. For a fee he would pack passengers and freight to and from Dawson, gaining a reputation for a difficult but safe passage. This is the trail where starry-eyed financiers first dreamed of building a railroad to Dawson City, where thousands of head of cattle were regularly driven north--with only some reaching their destination--and where reindeer were unsuccessfully introduced to the Yukon as pack animals. Despite its short existence--from 1897 to 1903, when it was superceded by the relative ease of the Chilkoot and White trails--the Dalton Trail was also a flashpoint for conflict with the local Natives, border disputes between Canada and the US, and the jumping-off point for yet another gold strike at Porcupine Creek. While the Klondike stories are (nearly) all true, just remember--it happened first on the Dalton.

Author : Dan Grec
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995198968
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road Chose Me Volume 2 written by Dan Grec and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for even more wild places and new experiences, Dan became determined to explore 'off the map' in Africa. From the mighty Sahara Desert in the north to the dense equatorial jungles of the Congo and the open grasslands of Southern Africa, Dan turned his biggest dream into reality. Over the course of three years Dan's second major expedition spanned fifty-four thousand miles through thirty-five unique African countries. THE ADVENTURE WAS A THOUSAND TIMES BIGGER THAN HE DREAMED POSSIBLE. After exploring the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to Argentina Dan became hooked on the freedom of global overland travel, and he only wanted more. New languages, exotic foods, stunning landscapes and local people with an entirely different outlook became Dan's everyday life. As the months turned into years, through highlights and despair Dan gained a new appreciation for what it truly means to be alive. Viewing our modern world through African eyes gave Dan a new perspective, and he was pulled in by the endless joy, laughter and kindness at every turn. While the landscapes and wildlife are undeniably breathtaking, it is the natural warmth of the African people that is truly unforgettable. All across the continent Dan was welcomed with love and generosity, and now he will never be the same.