The Klondike Fever

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Martino Fine Books
ISBN 13 : 9781578989645
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Klondike Fever written by Pierre Berton and published by Martino Fine Books. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : 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 : Barbara Greenwood
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613503129
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush Fever written by Barbara Greenwood and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You're crazy to think you'll strike it rich. Crazy, crazy, crazy!" Aunt Rachel isn't very happy about 13-year-old Tim and his older brother, Roy, heading off to the Klondike Gold Rush. But times are tough and getting worse. The possibility of discovering riches, however slim, is hard to resist. The trip from Seattle to the Yukon is torturous and filled with dangers. Blinding snowstorms, a hazardous mountain range and raging rapids stand between the prospectors and their chance to hit "paydirt." And of the 30 000 who do make it all the way to Dawson, only a small percentage will ever strike gold. Even so, Roy is determined to come back a rich man. And Tim, a budding writer, is looking to find the story of a lifetime. Their year in the gold fields is filled with exhausting travel, backbreaking work and bitter feuding. As the two brothers face increasing tensions and hardships, even all the gold in the world may not be enough to save their family. Book jacket.

Author : Michael L. Cooper
Publisher : Clarion Books
ISBN 13 : 9780395547847
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Klondike Fever written by Michael L. Cooper and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how, in the summer of 1896, hundreds of propectors rushed to the Klondike River in Canada because of a rumor that gold had been found there.

Author : Brian Castner
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 077101869X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stampede written by Brian Castner and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Tappan Adney
Publisher : New York ; London : Harper & bros.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Klondike Stampede written by Tappan Adney and published by New York ; London : Harper & bros.. This book was released on 1899 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : Laura Beatrice Berton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789120594
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Married the Klondike written by Laura Beatrice Berton and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1954, this is a true story of love and adventure which traces the history of Dawson City through the eyes of a young schoolteacher from Canada and the penniless Yukon miner she married... “This is a brave book. It is a record of a woman’s courage and devotion in a hostile land. It is the story of a refined and sensitive girl who found happiness the hard way, and triumphed over conditions that would have driven most women to distraction. It is also a tribute to a husband who with hand, heart and head was outstanding in a world of worthy men. “I have read many books on the Yukon, but this is different...It is the gallant personality of the author which shines on every page, and makes her chronicle a saga of the High North.” (Robert W. Service, Preface)

Author : Robert McCahon Dickey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965793803
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Fever written by Robert McCahon Dickey and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786256738
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Klondike Fever: The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush written by Pierre Berton and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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