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The Klondike As Seen By A Man From Maine
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Book Synopsis The Klondike Fever: The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush by : Pierre Berton
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 693 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
Book Synopsis Two Women in the Klondike by : Mary Hitchcock
Download or read book Two Women in the Klondike written by Mary Hitchcock and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Book Synopsis The Great Gold Swindle of Lubec, Maine by : Ronald Pesha
Download or read book The Great Gold Swindle of Lubec, Maine written by Ronald Pesha and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897, a stranger named Reverend Prescott Jernegan arrived in Lubec and made a bold claim: he could extract gold from seawater. To do so, he used so-called accumulators of electrically charged rods in iron pots. Fooling many, he actually hid the gold beneath a wharf in the Bay of Fundy during the night. He and his accomplice, Charles Fisher, preached with fervent enthusiasm as they built their factory and encouraged inspections, which reversed doubters to greedy high-stakes investors. Hundreds of laborers accelerated factory expansion until July 1897, when Jernegan and Fisher fled. Although residents of Lubec attempted civil and criminal action, both men relocated, and fantasies of gold wealth flowed away. Relive the excitement, disappointment and anger of turn-of-the-century Mainers in this collection of accounts about the Lubec gold hoax.
Book Synopsis Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush by : Peter Lourie
Download or read book Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush written by Peter Lourie and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -A middle grade biography of Jack London that sheds light on how he drew upon adventure and life experience to create works of literature---
Book Synopsis The Klondike Stampede by : Tappan Adney
Download or read book The Klondike Stampede written by Tappan Adney and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 1900 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Tappan Adney (1868-1950) was a photographer, artist, and writer. His 1900 book, The Klondike Stampede, remains a classic on the Gold Rush era.
Download or read book The Winds of Chance written by Rex Beach and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Winds of Chance' is a thrilling novel set against the background of the Alaskan Gold Rush. When Pierce Phillips reaches the Yukon, he discovers gold and finds women who are attracted to his charm. One rescues him after he is wrongly charged with stealing, another offers him a "better" job, and a third might win his heart.
Book Synopsis Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush by : Lael Morgan
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.
Download or read book Forest and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In to the Yukon by : William Seymour Edwards
Download or read book In to the Yukon written by William Seymour Edwards and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: In to the Yukon by William Seymour Edwards
Download or read book American Lumberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harper's Weekly written by John Bonner and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Clay-worker written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial by : William Richard Cutter
Download or read book New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial written by William Richard Cutter and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mapping the Frontier by : Rufus Harvey Sargent
Download or read book Mapping the Frontier written by Rufus Harvey Sargent and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska in 1900 was unexplored frontier, a land where risk, danger, and ultimate adventure made teamwork essential. Maine native R. Harvey Sargent led the U. S. Geological Survey in Alaska for over three decades, 1901-1936, charting the vast expanses of this remarkably beautiful and treacherous land. A pioneer of modern mapping, Sargent introduced 20th-century “firsts”: photogrammetry and aerial surveys in Alaska, and the first professional surveys of China’s mountainous interior. Mapping the Frontier: A Memoir of Discovery from Coastal Maine to the Alaskan Rim publishes for the first time Harvey Sargent’s diary of his explorations in the world’s outer edges, from China to Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Montana, and Alaska. He was the son of a sea captain, born with exploration and adventure in his veins. Grounded in the foundations of his childhood home of Sedgwick, Maine, to his family residence for a half-century with USGS in Washington, D. C., Sargent’s lively narrative is beautifully illustrated with period maps and photographs. The reader will experience the breathtaking majesty of the Grand Canyon; the deadly harsh winters of Utah’s dessert; misty fjords and dramatic icebergs of Glacier Bay National Park; and Sargent’s discovery of Alaska’s Aniakshak crater, today the country’s most remote National Monument and Preserve.
Book Synopsis Our Republic by : Edward Sylvester Ellis
Download or read book Our Republic written by Edward Sylvester Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Capping Courage by : Judy Wright Brooks
Download or read book Capping Courage written by Judy Wright Brooks and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capping Courage By: Judy Wright Brooks Capping Courage is a unique story that invites the reader to experience the life, joys, and hardships of Kort Olanna, a young Inuit boy who must take on the responsibility of supporting his family after his father’s untimely death. The bitter cold of the region and his sensitive, timid nature are a trying but motivating experience that help to change his fearfulness into a growing, courageous heart. That, along with the solving of a crime, creates a powerful message to children young and old.
