Author: Pierre Berton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494114251
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1958 edition.
The Klondike Fever
Author: Pierre Berton
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
ISBN: 9781578989645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
ISBN: 9781578989645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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.
Gold Rush Fever
Author: Barbara Greenwood
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613503129
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613503129
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"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.
Stampede
Author: Brian Castner
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 077101869X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 077101869X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Call of the Klondike
Author: David Meissner
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 1629797847
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 1629797847
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
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.
Klondike Women
Author: Melanie J. Mayer
Publisher: Swallow Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.
Publisher: Swallow Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.
Gold Fever
Author: Robert McCahon Dickey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965793803
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965793803
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Klondike Fever
Author: Pierre Berton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494114251
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1958 edition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494114251
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1958 edition.
The Klondike Fever
Author: Pierre Berton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush (original Edition)
Author: Pierre Berton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781773239286
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781773239286
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Klondike Fever
Author: Pierre Berton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781104847883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781104847883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.