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 Klondike Gold Rush


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Learn about the famous gold rush and its consequences.




In the Klondyke


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Author's account of his experience during the Klondike gold rush in the Yukon and Alaska. Includes descriptions of daily life and of Dawson City.




Call of the Klondike


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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.




We Were There in the Klondike Gold Rush


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A father and son go north with the Klondike gold rush of 1897 and, despite great hardships, manage to pan their fortune.




Gold Rush Steamers


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Gold Fever


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In 1897, tens of thousands of would-be prospectors flooded into the Yukon in search of instant wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush. In this historical tale of mayhem and obsession, characters like prospectors George Carmack and Skookum Jim, Skagway gangster Soapy Smith and Mountie Sam Steele come to life. Enduring savage weather, unforgiving terrain, violence and starvation, a lucky few made their fortune, and some just as quickly lost it. The lure of the North is still irresistible in this exciting account of a fabled era of Canadian history.




Magnificence and Misery


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Compiled from articles filed to The Cincinnati Post, personal letters and diaries of E. Hazard Wells, a young reporter sent out from Ohio in 1897 to cover the Klondike Gold Rush.




The Klondike Gold Rush


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Describes the adventures of those who flocked to the Klondike after gold was discovered there in 1896.