Author : Ron Wendt
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN : 9781886574120
This guide reveals where you can pan, dredge, detect, or sluice for gold legally, and without hassle.
Author : David Wharton
Publisher : Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253100610
Reconstructs the personalities, events, trading settlements and major strikes which produced the Alaska gold-mining boom.
Author : Sheila Kelly
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1602231028
A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was a featured stop on steamship cruises, a rich, up-to-date town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its wealth, however, was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island, and when those caved in and flooded in the early decades of the twentieth century, Treadwell sank into relative obscurity. Treadwell Gold presents first-person accounts from the sons and daughters of the miners, machinists, hoist operators, and superintendents who together dug and blasted the gold that made Treadwell rich. Alongside these stories are vintage photos that capture both the industrial vigor of the mines and the daily lives that made up Treadwell society. The book will fascinate anyone interested in Alaskan history or the romance of gold mining’s past.
Author : Lael Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Morgan offers an authentic and deliciously humorous account of the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who were the earliest female pioneers of the Far North.
Author : Kevin McGregor
Publisher : In-Depth Editions, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Aircraft accidents
ISBN : 9780988977242
On March 12, 1948, Northwest Airlines Flight 4422, a DC-4 with a crew of six, carrying twenty-four merchant marines from Shanghai to New York, crashed high up on Alaska's Mt. Sanford. Air reconnaissance flights spotted the remains of the plane, but the site was too remote for recovery teams. Rumors that the plane had been transporting gold and diamonds enticed treasure hunters to the mountain, but life threatening conditions kept them from reaching "Alaska's Legendary Gold Wreck." Flight of Gold is the first-person account of commercial airline pilot and mountain climber Kevin McGregor, who with pilot Marc Millican, attempted to solve the mystery of the reputed treasure. After four years of near-obsessive efforts, they made two startling discoveries: One led them into leading-edge forensics and the other gave substance to the treasure rumor.
Author : Maria Reeves
Publisher : Epicenter Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : Gold dredging
ISBN : 9780578011592
Gold Dredge No. 8 is one of the most significant relics of mining history in Alaska. Currently located at her final resting place, just north of Fairbanks, dredge No. 8 was dubbed the "Queen of the Fleet" during her years of operation in the Goldstream Valley. Gold Dredge No. 8 is the only landmark of its kind that is open to the public. Every summer, she provides a wonderful experience to thousands of visitors who come to Fairbanks looking for adventure and the chance to experience firsthand the history for which Fairbanks's mining pioneers are renowned. Author Maria Reeves explores the history of Gold Dredge No. 8 as well as visionary men, lie Norman C. Stines and James M. Davidson, who made dredging in the Fairbanks district not only a reality, but also provided enough economic stability to bring the struggling town of Fairbanks back to life. Gold Dredge No. 8 was a placer mine that drew water from another local engineering landmark, the Davidson Ditch. In this book, you'll learn about the crew that operated Gold Dredge No. 8 as well as the hardships these dredge men faced on a daily basis. You'll be able to take a photographic tour of Gold Dredge No. 8 as she is now, and learn about efforts to preserve Pleistocene fossil remains that were unearthed during the stripping process. You'll learn why the gold standard initially helped mining and find out why Gold Dredge No. 8 was shut down in 1959.
Author : David Hoerner
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781419603914
This book is a recollection of the authors experiences in Alaska. It details his hair raising and near death flying experiences. The trials and tribulations of gold mining, and the greed associated with it. A connection with the Mafia. An accelerated learning curve flying supplies to other miners. The support of family at home in Montana and at the mine.
Author : Richard L. Lampright
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN :
Author : Alaska Gold
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2015-04-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781495322006
This is our hurt in your hands. These are the words of our breaking, our loving, our learning... This is our becoming.
Author : Leland Carlson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1725232545
An Alaskan Gold Mine: The Story of No. 9 Above is a notable and tragic story of the discovery of Alaska gold in 1898. The mine had so many implications for leaders and institutions of the Evangelical Covenant Church, a tangled and contested case of ownership extending over two decades that went to the Supreme Court of the United States on four occasions. Visiting Alaska three times doing meticulous research into legal proceedings and conducting oral interviews, Carlson succeeded in crafting a compelling narrative of gold, grief, and greed. An Alaskan Gold Mine: The Story of No. 9 Above remains a classic case study of the Alaska gold rush as a whole, as well as the particular context of issues and personalities unique to the bonanza claim staked by a Covenant missionary on Anvil Creek above the boomtown Nome.
