Klondike And All About It

Author : David Meissner
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 1629797847
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call of the Klondike written by David Meissner and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lisa Mighetto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4N/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Drive to the Klondike written by Lisa Mighetto and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alaskan Klondike Gold Rush coincided with major events, including the arrival of the railroad, and it exemplified continuing trends in Seattle's history. If not the primary cause of the city's growth and prosperity, the Klondike Gold Rush nonetheless serves as a colorful reflection of the era and its themes, including the celebrated "Seattle spirit." This historic resource study examines the Klondike Gold Rush, beginning in the early 1850's with the founding of Seattle, and ending in 1909 with the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition commemorating the Klondike Gold Rush and the growth of the city. Chapter 1 describes early Seattle and the gold strikes in the Klondike, while the following three chapters analyze how the city became the gateway to the Yukon, how the stampede to the Far North stimulated local businesses, and how the city's infrastructure and boundaries changed during the era of the gold rush. Chapter 5 looks at how historians have interpreted the Klondike Gold Rush throughout the 20th century. The final chapter brings the Klondike story up to the present, describing the establishment of Seattle's Pioneer Square Historic District and the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. The chapter titles include: (1) "'By-and-By': The Early History of Seattle"; (2) "Selling Seattle"; (3) "Reaping the Profits of the Klondike Trade"; (4) "Building the City"; (5) "Interpreting the Klondike Gold Rush"; and (6) "Historic Resources in the Modern Era." Contains an extensive 147-item partially annotated bibliography; 12 appendixes contain historical documents and photographs.

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 : Ian Macdonald
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780920663455
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Klondike's "dear Little Nugget" written by Ian Macdonald and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains excerpts from the Klondike nugget.

Author : Melanie J. Mayer
Publisher : Swallow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Klondike Women written by Melanie J. Mayer and published by Swallow Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.

Author : Norman Lee
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781894898140
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Klondike Cattle Drive written by Norman Lee and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest addition to TouchWood Editions' Classics West Collection, Klondike Cattle Drive is the colourful tale of a formidable trek undertaken by legendary Cariboo rancher Norman Lee. In 1898, Lee set out to drive 200 head of cattle from his home in the Chilcotin area of B.C. to the Klondike goldfields--a distance of 1,500 miles. He was gambling both his cattle and his life. This is his story, derived from the journal he kept, his letters and the loyal men who accompanied him. Throughout the daunting weeks of coping with mud, cold and sheer bad luck, Lee kept his sense of humour. When he returned from his Yukon trek, he rewrote the notes from his journal, illustrating his story with his own cartoons and sketches. He completed his manuscript around the turn of the century, but it sat untouched until 1960, when it was published by Howard Mitchell of Mitchell Press, Vancouver.

Author : Chicago Record Co., publishers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Klondike written by Chicago Record Co., publishers and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a rebound copy of 1897 edition published by Monarch Book in Chicago. It contains around a fifth part of the original content.

Author : George Flavel Danforth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1208 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States Catalog written by George Flavel Danforth and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Gates
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 155017777X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Klondike to Berlin written by Michael Gates and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No part of the Empire has given up more completely of her splendid men than Yukon ... Such being the case, the Dominion should not be forgetful of this region—the Empire’s farthest North, and take pride in the encouragement of the spirit that dominates the people of the Land of the Midnight Sun.” —Dawson Daily News, May 15, 1918 Nearly a thousand Yukoners, a quarter of the population, enlisted before the end of the Great War. They were lawyers, bankers, piano tuners, dockworkers and miners who became soldiers, nurses and snipers; brave men and women who traded the isolated beauty of the north for the muddy, crowded horror of the battlefields. Those who stayed home were no less important to the war’s outcome—by March of 1916, the Dawson Daily News estimated that Yukoners had donated often and generously at a rate of $12 per capita compared to the dollar per person donated elsewhere in the country. Historian Michael Gates tells us the stories of both those who left and those on the home front, including the adventures of Joe Boyle, who successfully escorted the Romanian crown jewels on a 1,300-kilometre journey through Russia in spite of robbers, ambushes, gunfire, explosions, fuel shortages and barricades. Gates also recounts the home-front efforts of Martha Black, who raised thousands of dollars and eventually travelled to Europe where she acted as an advocate for the Yukon boys. Stories of these heroes and many others are vividly recounted with impeccable research.

Author : Simon Armitage
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
ISBN 13 : 9780748742905
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eclipse written by Simon Armitage and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2001 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first of these two plays, a group of English teenagers investigates the mysterious disappearance of a girl during an eclipse and, in the second, conflicts develop among friends as they face their sexuality.