The Klondike Fever
The Klondike Fever

Author: Pierre Berton

Publisher: Martino Fine Books

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9781578989645

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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
Gold Rush Fever

Author: Barbara Greenwood

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 2001-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780613503129

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"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
Stampede

Author: Brian Castner

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 077101869X

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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
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.

Klondike Women
Klondike Women

Author: Melanie J. Mayer

Publisher: Swallow Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.

Women of the Klondike
Women of the Klondike

Author: Frances Backhouse

Publisher: Graphic Arts Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Here are the stories of those fascinatingly diverse women -- entrepreneurs, domestics, nuns, doctors, nurses, and journalists -- who played a critical role in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the century.

Gold Fever
Gold Fever

Author: Robert McCahon Dickey

Publisher:

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780965793803

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Gold Diggers
Gold Diggers

Author: Charlotte Gray

Publisher: HarperCollins Canada

Published: 2010-10-11

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1443405116

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No event in our history is more legendary than the Yukon Gold Rush of 1896. On August 16, when rich gold deposits were discovered in Bonanza Creek, 100,000 prospectors set off for the newly created Dawson City in search of instant wealth. Hungry miners hoped for the one big strike; others, for prosperity in this instant boom town; some, for the adventure of a lifetime. Charlotte Gray, one of our best writers of non-fiction, tells the story of the Gold Rush through the intimate lives of six extraordinary people: the saintly priest Father Judge; the feisty entrepreneur Belinda Mulrooney; the struggling writer Jack London; the imperious British journalist Flora Shaw; the legendary Sam Steele of the Mounties; and the prospector William Haskell. Brilliantly interweaving their stories, Gray creates a fascinating panorama of a frontier town where desperados, saloon keepers, gamblers, dance hall girls, churchmen and law-makers were thrown together in a volatile time. Beautifully illustrated with period photographs and documents of the Gold Rush, Gold Diggers is a colourful and entertaining journey into a world gone mad for gold.

The Klondike Fever: The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush
The Klondike Fever: The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush

Author: Pierre Berton

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2015-11-06

Total Pages: 693

ISBN-13: 1786256738

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“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

The Klondike Fever
The Klondike Fever

Author: Pierre Berton

Publisher:

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9781494114251

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This is a new release of the original 1958 edition.