Daltons Gold Rush Trail

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 Despite its short existence--from 1897 to 1903, when it was superceded by the relative ease of the Chilkoot and White trails--the Dalton Trail was also a flashpoint for conflict with the local Natives, border disputes between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 : Arthur R. Thompson
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail written by Arthur R. Thompson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail" is a book that focused on the explorations of David and Roly on the Dalton Trail. Filled with lots of sceneries and places to hold on to, this book describes the beautiful distance of this long trail. This book is based on adventure, exploration, and travel.

Author : Arthur Ripley Thompson
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold-seeking on the Dalton Trail written by Arthur Ripley Thompson and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1900 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Ripley Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 327 pages
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Download or read book Gold-seeking on the Dalton Trail written by Arthur Ripley Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alonzo Delano
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803266490
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Trail to the California Gold Rush written by Alonzo Delano and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lured by ?the astonishing accounts of the vast deposits of gold in California,? Alonzo Delano (1806?74) of Ottawa, Illinois, bid farewell to his wife and children and joined the rush to El Dorado. For the next five months?April to early September 1849?he persevered in writing his remarkably detailed diary, recounting his experiences among the more than thirty thousand goldseekers representing all thirty states who struggled across half of the continent to California?s ?gold fields.? With each entry the reader is drawn into the changing circumstances, from a hurried trailside burial of a comrade to a defense against an Indian attack; from suffering thirst in the desert to anger at a lazy campmate. ø Unlike most diarists who at the end of the epic journey gave up their demanding task, Delano continued his vivid account until the summer of 1851. He went on to report as a professional journalist, ranging far and wide across the scenes of life in the diggings and the cities, from prospecting along the Yuba River to witnessing lynch law in San Francisco. ø First published in 1854 as Life on the Plains and among the Diggings and deemed a California Gold Rush classic, this new edition will carry on the adventure for thousands of new readers.

Author : Gail Wilson Kenna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780883362204
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Along the Gold Rush Trail written by Gail Wilson Kenna and published by . This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlotte Foltz Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yukon Gold written by Charlotte Foltz Jones and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Arthur R. Thompson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500768973
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail written by Arthur R. Thompson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold-Seeking on the Dalton TrailBy Arthur R. Thompson

Author : Arthur Ripley Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book Gold-seeking on the Dalton Trail written by Arthur Ripley Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Gates
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1550179977
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood in the Klondike written by Michael Gates and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting first-hand account of an unexpected cinematic discovery, Michael Gates delves into the history behind a hoard of silent films found buried beneath the permafrost of an Arctic gold rush town. In 1978, hundreds of reels of silent films were unearthed from beneath the demolished site of an old hockey arena in Dawson City, Yukon. Author Michael Gates witnessed the cinematic discovery of these once-lost films—and in this book excavates and illuminates the history of a gold rush town like no other. An event in the most unlikely of places and circumstances, the Klondike gold rush was unique in the history of Canada and the development of the North. Dawson City, the “Paris of the North,” was the hub of the Klondike gold rush 125 years ago. There were more saloons, gambling halls and theatres than there were places serving food, and the live theatre was at the centre of it all. Discover the icons who went from the Klondike to Hollywood: Robert Service, Jack London, Charlie Chaplin, Alexander Pantages, Sid Grauman, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Marjorie Rambeau and more. Join Gates on this cinematic journey as he ponders the question: Did the Klondike help make Hollywood, or did Hollywood make the Klondike? Crafted from Gates’s first-hand experience and extensive research, Hollywood in the Klondike casts a spotlight on an exciting piece of Canadian history.