Book Description
Additions include a chapter on the role of Seattle in the gold rush, the creation of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, a map of the trail and a guide for hikers.
Author : Archie Satterfield
Publisher : Alaska Northwest Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780882401096
Additions include a chapter on the role of Seattle in the gold rush, the creation of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, a map of the trail and a guide for hikers.
Author : Charlene Porsild
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0774842253
The popular image of the Klondike is of a rush of white, male adventurers who overcame great physical and geographical obstacles in their quest for gold. Young, white, single American men carried forward the ideals and structures of the western frontier. It was a man's world made respectable only after the turn of the century with the arrival of white, middle class women who miraculously swept out the corners of dirt and vice and 'civilized' the society. These impressions endure despite recent attempts to correct them. Gamblers and Dreamers tackles some of the myths about the history of the North in the era of the gold rush. Though many inhabitants came and went, Charlene Porsild focuses on the concept of community commitment to show that many put down roots. This in-depth study of Dawson City at the turn of the century reveals that the city had a cosmopolitan character, a stratified society, and a definite permanence. It examines the lives of First Nations peoples, miners and other labourers, professionals, merchants, dance hall performers and sex trade workers, providing fascinating detail about those who left homes and jobs to strike it rich in the last great gold rush of the nineteenth century. In the process, Gamblers and Dreamers puts a human face on this compelling period of history.
Author : David Neufeld
Publisher : Lost Moose Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Chilkoot Trail
ISBN : 9780969461296
No aspect of this harrowing journey was more difficult--or deadly--than the trek over the Chilkoot Trail: a fifty-three kilometre journey over the coastal mountains from the tidewaters of Alaska, through British Columbia to the headwaters of the Yukon River. But even before the gold rush, the trail was an important First Nations trade and travel route, joining the Tlingit of the coast with the First Nations of the interior. Today the Chilkoot Trail draws hikers from around the world who want to experience the area's natural beauty and soak up its rich history. In Chilkoot Trail: Heritage Route to the Klondike, two historians--one from each side of the border--give readers the feeling of what life was like on the trail before, during and after the great Klondike gold rush.
Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805097570
-A middle grade biography of Jack London that sheds light on how he drew upon adventure and life experience to create works of literature---
Author : Kris Valencia
Publisher : Morris Communications Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 2007-03
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 9781892154217
Referred to by travellers as "the bible of North Country travel" since it was first published in 1949, The Milepost is an essential travel companion for anyone planning or taking a trip to Alaska, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, northern Alberta or northern British Columbia.Travellers will find detailed mile-by-mile road logs and maps of all northern routes, including the famous Alaska Highway. The Milepost is updated annually by experienced field editors, providing accurate and up-to-date information on attractions, activities, food, gas, lodging and camping. Details are provided for every city and town along the way.Travel by air, ferry, cruise ship, bus and rail is also covered. Every edition of The Milepost includes Alaska State Ferry and B.C. Ferries schedules, important information on crossing the border, a calendar of events, a pull-out Plan-a-Trip map, litre-to-gallon conversions and dozens of other travel tips.Special features highlight side-trip destinations, gold rush and highway history, and places to eat and things to do.With its wealth of detail, The Milepost is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in the North, whether it is the trans-Alaska pipeline, bird watching, Native culture, or glaciers and wildlife viewing, to name just a few attractions. This classic travel guide is a must for every Northland traveller.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN :
Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Martino Fine Books
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781578989645
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.
Author : Frances Backhouse
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Gold miners
ISBN :
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.
Author : Roy Minter
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
ISBN : 9780912006338
By the thousands they came, the gold-seekers of 1897, pouring through Alaska's White and Chilkoot passes on their way to the Klondike and to fortune. Fast behind them came the entrepreneurs, the bunco artists, and before long, the engineers and financiers whose driving ambition was to build a railway through the White Pass's rocky precipices. This is the epic northern adventure of the men who rushed for gold, the workers who toiled in winter storms and thaw-time muck, carving the grade and laying rail, and the ingenious characters who dreamed, schemed, promoted, and finally built the White Pass and Yukon Railway.
Author : Cynthia Johnson
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781388355067
The reality of hiking the Chilkoot Pass Trail located in the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park as it exists today.