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Grit, grief and gold

Author : Fenton B. Whiting
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557025710
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Grit, grief and gold written by Fenton B. Whiting and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grit, Grief and Gold is an eyewitness account of pioneering railroad building in Alaska. Dr. Fenton B. Whiting was chief surgeon during the construction of the White Pass & Yukon Route, built during the Yukon Gold Rush by his friend M.J. Heney. He later served in the same capacity during Heney's construction of the Copper River & Northwestern Railway. The story includes construction through some of the most impassable terrain imaginable, encounters with outlaw Soapy Smith and prospector George Carmack, the successful completion of both lines and Heney's tragic death after a shipwreck in Alaska's waters.This reprinting of Grit, Grief and Gold has been enriched with over seventy additional photographs and includes an appendix that expands on Dr. Whiting's account.

A Wild Discouraging Mess

Author : Julie Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book A Wild Discouraging Mess written by Julie Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"That Fiend in Hell"

Author : Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806188200
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book "That Fiend in Hell" written by Catherine Holder Spude and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the “uncrowned king of Skagway,” remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in ’98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game. With Smith’s death, Skagway rid itself of crime forever. Or at least, so the story goes. Journalists immediately cast him as a martyr whose death redeemed a violent town. In fact, he was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Spude concludes that the actual Soapy was not the legendary “boss of Skagway,” nor was he killed by Frank Reid, as early historians supposed. She shows that even eyewitnesses who knew the truth later changed their stories to fit the myth. But why? Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway’s boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith’s death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway’s economic interests. Spude’s engaging deconstruction of Soapy’s story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier.

Books and Notes

Author : Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Books and Notes written by Los Angeles County Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empire's Edge

Author : Preston Jones
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1889963895
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Empire's Edge written by Preston Jones and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1898, Nome, Alaska, burst into the American consciousness when one of the largest gold strikes in the world occurred on its shores. Over the next ten years, Nome’s population exploded as both men and women came north to seek their fortunes. Closer to Siberia than to New York, Nome’s citizens created their own version of small-town America on the northern frontier. Less than 150 miles from the Arctic Circle, they weathered the Great War and the diphtheria epidemic of 1925 as well as floods, fires, and the Great Depression. They enlivened the Alaska winters with pastimes such as high-school basketball and social clubs. Empire’s Edge is the story of how ordinary Americans made a life on the edge of a continent—a life both ordinary and extraordinary.

Klondike

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385673647
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 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.

Alaska: A Guide to Alaska, Last American Frontier

Author :
Publisher : US History Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1603540024
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Alaska: A Guide to Alaska, Last American Frontier written by and published by US History Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arctic Bibliography

Author : Arctic Institute of North America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Bibliography written by Arctic Institute of North America and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Petroglyphs of the United States

Author : Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Petroglyphs of the United States written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Totem Poles of Alaska and Indian Mythology

Author : Lloyd W. MacDowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Totem Poles of Alaska and Indian Mythology written by Lloyd W. MacDowell and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Modern Growth of the Totem Pole on the Northwest Coast

Author : Marius Barbeau
Publisher : Shorey's Bookstore
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Growth of the Totem Pole on the Northwest Coast written by Marius Barbeau and published by Shorey's Bookstore. This book was released on 1965 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The WPA Guide to Alaska

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595342001
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The WPA Guide to Alaska written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide the Alaskan Territory takes the reader on a journey across the Land of the Midnight Sun, from the North Slope to the Aleutian Islands. First published in 1939, the guide reports on all the things that make this soon-to-be state unique: the influence of Alaska’s indigenous peoples, the thriving fishing industry, and the distinctive flora and fauna.

Six-Guns and Saddle Leather

Author : Ramon Frederick Adams
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486400358
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Six-Guns and Saddle Leather written by Ramon Frederick Adams and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-02-25 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2380 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1934 with total page 2380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalogue of Copyright Entries

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Justice to the Indian

Author : Myron Eells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Justice to the Indian written by Myron Eells and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contested Ground

Author : Geoffrey T. Bleakley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Contested Ground written by Geoffrey T. Bleakley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: