Book Description
Contains excerpts from the Klondike nugget.
Author : Ian Macdonald
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780920663455
Contains excerpts from the Klondike nugget.
Author : University of Alaska (College)
Publisher :
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 1927
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Author : Arctic Institute of North America
Publisher :
Page : 1558 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Arctic regions
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Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 1908
Category : America
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Author : William S. Lambert
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 1924
Category : America
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Author : James Wickersham
Publisher : Cordova, Alaska : Cordova daily times print
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Alaska
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Contains the titles of all histories, travels, voyages, newspapers, periodicals, public documents, etc., printed in English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, etc., relating to, descriptive of, or published in Russian America or Alaska, from 1724 to and including 1924.
Author : Sandra L. Myres
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826306265
Contains letters, journals, and reminiscences showing the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.
Author : Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806188189
As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the “uncrowned king of Skagway,” remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in ’98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game. With Smith’s death, Skagway rid itself of crime forever. Or at least, so the story goes. Journalists immediately cast him as a martyr whose death redeemed a violent town. In fact, he was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Spude concludes that the actual Soapy was not the legendary “boss of Skagway,” nor was he killed by Frank Reid, as early historians supposed. She shows that even eyewitnesses who knew the truth later changed their stories to fit the myth. But why? Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway’s boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith’s death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway’s economic interests. Spude’s engaging deconstruction of Soapy’s story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier.
Author : James (Jay) W. Williams
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803256825
In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London’s work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London’s “Story of a Typhoon” to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.
Author : Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs. National Historic Parks and Sites Branch
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Historic sites
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