Gold Rush Steamers


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The Klondike Gold Rush Steamers


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Now available from Harbour Publishing! A lavishly illustrated volume of Klondike frontier history.




Klondike Gold Rush Steamers


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"During the Klondike Gold Rush, sternwheeled steamboats were the key mode of transportation. This book tells the dramatic story of these amazing boats, the people who built and ran them, and the services they gave to a vast, lonely, frenzied, challenging frontier. Like Turner's 17 other books of transportation history, it combines meticulously researched text with stunning photographs, here over 500 (including rare colour images)"--










The California Gold Rush


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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1948.







Gold, Silk, Pioneers & Mail


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The California Gold Rush of 1849 assured the fortunes of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. Based in San Francisco, its wooden steamers carried gold, passengers, mail and high-value freight, forever changing the city, the Pacific Coast and the nation.




The Gold Rush


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