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A comprehensive edition with all of the classic works, from The Spell of the Yukon to Ballads of a Cheechako, by the masterful yarn-spinner who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the Frozen North.
Author : Robert William Service
Publisher : Running Press Book Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 1983-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A comprehensive edition with all of the classic works, from The Spell of the Yukon to Ballads of a Cheechako, by the masterful yarn-spinner who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the Frozen North.
Author : Robert W Service
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780613999380
In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the frozen north. His tales of hard-bitten prospectors and sourdoughs in "The Land God Forgot" make vivid, exciting reading. Here are all the brawling, colorful characters that Service immortalized, including One-Eyed Mike, Dangerous Dan McGrew, Pious Pete, Blasphemous Bill--and, of course, the lady known as Lou.
Author : Robert William Service
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781015403338
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Author : Robert W. Service
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781611048902
Transport yourself to the untamed world of the Yukon through the immersive verse of poet Robert Service. This collection captures the rugged beauty, adventure, and frontier spirit of the Yukon Territory at the turn of the 20th century. Service's mastery of narrative poetry shines as he chronicles the tales of determined prospectors, hardy adventurers, gamblers, outlaws, and those lured by the call of the North. His ballads evoke the harsh realities and myths of the Gold Rush era in the raw, vibrant language of the common man. Thrill to the danger and drama of the wilderness as Service spins yarns of trailblazers, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, striking riches and elusive gold. Feel the bitterness of an Arctic winter night; experience the rowdy saloons of Dawson City firsthand. Transport back to an era when the lure of the Klondike captured imaginations worldwide. Filled with the smiled-at perils and hard-won triumphs of the unsung heroes and rogues who braved a merciless land, Service's tales overflow with frontier spirit. His rollicking rhymes and rhapsodic free verse masterfully capture the essence of Yukon folklore. This Canadian bard's spellbinding stanzas will whisk you away to the trails, rivers, and mountains of an unbridled time and place.
Author : Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0684856328
From the hilarious and subversive children's author, essayist and NPR commentator, true tales drawn from his cordial--if dysfunctional--relationships with the dogs in his life. illustrations.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307757498
As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’s best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the punishing adversity that awaited men in the brutal, frozen expanses of the Yukon, and the extreme tactics these adventurers and travelers adopted to survive. As Van Wyck Brooks observed, “One felt that the stories had been somehow lived–that they were not merely observed–that the author was not telling tales but telling his life.” This edition is unique to the Modern Library, featuring twenty-three carefully chosen stories from London’s three collected Northland volumes and his later Klondike tales. It also includes two maps of the region, and notes on the text.
Author : Howard Blum
Publisher : Crown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0307461734
New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures--gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen--are now victims of their own success. But then gold is discovered in Alaska and the adjacent Canadian Klondike and a new frontier suddenly looms: an immense unexplored territory filled with frozen waterways, dark spruce forests, and towering mountains capped by glistening layers of snow and ice. In a true-life tale that rivets from the first page, we meet Charlie Siringo, a top-hand sharp-shooting cowboy who becomes one of the Pinkerton Detective Agency’s shrewdest; George Carmack, a California-born American Marine who’s adopted by an Indian tribe, raises a family with a Taglish squaw, and makes the discovery that starts off the Yukon Gold Rush; and Jefferson "Soapy" Smith, a sly and inventive conman who rules a vast criminal empire. As we follow this trio’s lives, we’re led inexorably into a perplexing mystery: a fortune in gold bars has somehow been stolen from the fortress-like Treadwell Mine in Juneau, Alaska. Charlie Siringo discovers that to run the thieves to ground, he must embark on a rugged cross-territory odyssey that will lead him across frigid waters and through a frozen wilderness to face down "Soapy" Smith and his gang of 300 cutthroats. Hanging in the balance: George Carmack’s fortune in gold. At once a compelling true-life mystery and an unforgettable portrait of a time in America’s history, The Floor of Heaven is also an exhilarating tribute to the courage and undaunted spirit of the men and women who helped shape America.
Author : Enid L. Mallory
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 31,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781894384957
Robert Service's time in the Yukon, at first as a transplanted bank clerk and later living off the royalties of poems like "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee," is the core of a fascinating life. Starving in Mexico, residing in a
Author : Julie Cruikshank
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Athapascan Indians
ISBN : 9780774804134
"There is pure gold here for those who want to understand the rules of the old ways. ... [The book] has a convincing sureness, an intensity which cannot be denied, a strong sense of family. ... Candidly, and often with sly humour, the three women discuss early white-Indian relations, the Klondike gold rush, the epidemics, the starvation, the healthy and wealthy times, and building of the Alaska Highway. ... Integrity is here, and wisdom. There is no doubting the authenticity of the voices. As women, they had power and they used it wisely, and through their words and Cruikshank's skills, you will change your mind if you think the anthropological approach to oral history can only be dull."--Barry Broadfoot, Toronto Globe and Mail.
Author : Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0762789522
Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting, offers 50 tales of hard-bitten sourdoughs, petty bandits, outright outlaws, guilt-free gunmen, and murderous money-grubbers as they scrabbled to gain the lands, foodstuffs, and fortunes of wide-eyed greenhorns, gullible and trusting tenderfoots, and slow-on-the-draw gold panners.