The Real Klondike Kate

Author : T. Ann Brennan
Publisher : Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Klondike Kate written by T. Ann Brennan and published by Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions. This book was released on 1990 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Katherine Ryan, born in Johnville, New Brunswick in 1869, and who joined the Yukon Gold Rush in 1898. Nicknamed "Klondike Kate", she was the first female member of the North West Mounted Police, one of the first women to walk the Stikine Trail, and an early suffragette and important political figure in the North.

Author : Ellis Lucia
Publisher : New York : Hastings House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Klondike Kate written by Ellis Lucia and published by New York : Hastings House. This book was released on 1962 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and legend of Kitty Rockwell, dance-hall girl of the Yukon.

Author : Deb Vanasse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602232778
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wealth Woman written by Deb Vanasse and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the first headlines that screamed "Gold! Gold! Gold!" the rush to the Klondike quickly became the stuff of legend. It was the Wild West all over again, the cowboy hero recast as prospector. Four key figures are linked to the gold that set off the stampede: George Carmack, his Tagish wife Kate Carmack (born Shaaw Tlaa), her brother Skookum Jim, and their nephew Dawson Charlie. Of these, Kate has received the least recognition, even though she played a pivotal role in the events that led to the Klondike stampede. In this recovery of a key historical figure, Vanasse explores the early life of Kate, the years she spent with George before the Klondike discovery, her meeting of almost every key figure in gold rush history, and the experiences in Washington and California that brought her into a world she could scarcely have imagined. Four years after he set off the rush, Carmack abandoned his wife at a California ranch. Illiterate and thousands of miles from her home, Kate fought for her wealth, her family, and her reputation. Through a fortuitous combination of correspondence, legal proceedings, ethnographic study, and the generosity of Kate's Tagish-Tlingit relatives, the story of Kate Carmack can finally be told. The first popular rendering of the Klondike Gold Rush from the perspective of those who were there first-, her biography gives voice to a survivor who, against all odds, ultimately reclaimed her true wealth. Vanasse brings a novelist's skill to a multifaceted and deeply researched story. Here is a complex portrait of an important historical figure overshadowed by the rush to Klondike gold.

Author : Ellis Lucia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780891740247
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Klondike Kate written by Ellis Lucia and published by . This book was released on 1978-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathryn Morse
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989874
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Gold written by Kathryn Morse and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging setting. Ever since that time, the Klondike Gold Rush - especially as portrayed in photographs of long lines of gold seekers marching up Chilkoot Pass - has had a hold on the popular imagination. In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America�s transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural laborers across the country. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times. The story Morse tells is often narrated through the diaries and letters of the miners themselves. The daunting challenges of traveling, working, and surviving in the raw wilderness are illustrated not only by the miners� compelling accounts but by newspaper reports and advertisements. Seattle played a key role as �gateway to the Klondike.� A public relations campaign lured potential miners to the West and local businesses seized the opportunity to make large profits while thousands of gold seekers streamed through Seattle. The drama of the miners� journeys north, their trials along the gold creeks, and their encounters with an extreme climate will appeal not only to scholars of the western environment and of late-19th-century industrialism, but to readers interested in reliving the vivid adventure of the West�s last great gold rush.

Author : Robert William Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs of a Sourdough written by Robert William Service and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Val Dumond
Publisher : Muddy Puddle Press
ISBN 13 : 9780979746611
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sugar, Spice, and Stone written by Val Dumond and published by Muddy Puddle Press. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571265456
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wrestling written by Simon Garfield and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brilliant oral history of the golden age of British wrestling and magnificent wider social history.' Richard Osman The classic account of the men and women who used to fight each other for pride and money. Simon Garfield brings them to life in one last glorious bout of jealousy, myth, revenge, passion and deep devotion. When British wrestling was dropped from the ITV schedules in the mid-80s it left the giants of the ring - Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki - bereft. This is the true story of the circuit, the big names and their rivalries, told with humour, warmth and affection. This edition features a new afterword by the author.

Author : Lael Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush written by Lael Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan offers an authentic and deliciously humorous account of the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who were the earliest female pioneers of the Far North.

Author : Anna DeGraf
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneering on the Yukon, 1892-1917 written by Anna DeGraf and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna DeGraf, an independent pioneer, recounts her twenty-five years of adventure in Alaska and the Yukon Territory before, during, and after the Gold Rush.