A Klondike Claim
A Klondike Claim

Author: Nick Carter

Publisher:

Published: 1897

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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"A Klondike Claim" is an early American "dime novel" published in 1897 by Street & Smith Publishers of New York. It introduces athletic, clever, handsome Harvey Stokes, a college grad who was more interested in athletics than scholarship and is now traveling the world. He seems to have an aptitude for detective work and this is put to the test with three different cases in the one story. The book is set against a backdrop of Alaska (or at least what a writer in New York thought would pass for Alaska) during the height of the Klondike gold rush.

Staking Her Claim
Staking Her Claim

Author: Melanie J. Mayer

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13:

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Describing her as a character Horatio Alger might have created, Mayer, who wrote Klondike Women, and DeArmond, a historian and journalist in Sitka, describe how Irish-born Mulrooney (1872-1967) migrated to the US and became a trader, then pioneered in the wilds of the Yukon basin, founded town and businesses, built two fortunes, supported her family, and was an ally to other working women. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush
Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush

Author: Peter Lourie

Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers

Published: 2017-03-28

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0805097570

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-A middle grade biography of Jack London that sheds light on how he drew upon adventure and life experience to create works of literature---

Call of the Klondike
Call of the Klondike

Author: David Meissner

Publisher: Boyds Mills Press

Published: 2016-11-04

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1629797847

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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.

Dublin Gulch
Dublin Gulch

Author: Michael Gates

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

Published: 2020-06-27

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781550179408

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Yukon historian Michael Gates unearths the rich origin story of Eagle Mine, the largest gold mine to ever operate in Yukon territory.

The Golden Volcano
The Golden Volcano

Author: Jules Verne

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2008-05-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780803296350

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Two Canadian cousins who unexpectedly inherit a Klondike mining claim are thrust into the heart of the perils and hardships of the gold rush, until a deathbed confidence sends them on a quest to find a fabulous gold-filled volcano on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in a dramatic adventure newly translated from the author's original manuscript. Simultaneous.

Claims and Speculations
Claims and Speculations

Author: Janet Floyd

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0826351395

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Mines have always been hard and dangerous places. They have also been as dependent upon imaginative writing as upon the extraction of precious materials. This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry: miners and journalists, as well as writers of folklore and song. Floyd begins by considering some of the grand narratives the industry has generated. She goes on to discuss particular places and the distinctive work they generated--the short fictions of the California Gold Rush, the Sagebrush journalism of Nevada's Comstock Lode, Leadville romance, and the popular culture of the Klondike. With excursions to Canada, South Africa, and Australia, Floyd looks at how the experience of a destructive and chaotic industry produced a global literature.