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Book On the  White Pass  Pay roll

Download or read book On the White Pass Pay roll written by S. H. Graves and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On the  White Pass  Pay roll

Download or read book On the White Pass Pay roll written by S. H. Graves and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mimeograph typescript of the text of the book published in Chicago, Illinois by The Lakeside Press, 1908. The book is largely a memoir of the first company president containing anecdotes and observations of the day to day operations of building and operating a railroad in difficult conditions over the period of its first ten years that was spurred on by a gold rush in the Klondike River Valley. Also includes a photocopy of a typescript letter, dated January 2, 1959, by an unknown author in Seattle, Washington to Ellis J. McClanahan in Hillsborough, California in which the author notes that the typescript he is sending along was created about 25 years prior to the date of the letter. The two correspondents appear to have been co-workers at some point in the past at the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad

Book White Pass and Yukon Route

    Book Details:
  • Author : White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm)
  • Publisher : [United States : s.n.], c1923 ([Chicago : Poole Bros.])
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book White Pass and Yukon Route written by White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm) and published by [United States : s.n.], c1923 ([Chicago : Poole Bros.]). This book was released on 1923 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On the White Pass Pay Roll

    Book Details:
  • Author : S. H. Graves
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2015-09-03
  • ISBN : 9781341353031
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book On the White Pass Pay Roll written by S. H. Graves and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Trumps

Download or read book The Trumps written by Gwenda Blair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive family biography of President Donald Trump. The revealing story of the Trumps mirrors America’s transformation from a land of striving immigrants to a world in which the aura of wealth alone can guarantee a fortune. The Trumps begins with a portrait of President Trump’s immigrant grandfather, who as a young man built hotels for miners in Alaska during the Klondike gold rush. His son, Fred, took advantage of the New Deal, using government subsidies and loopholes to construct hugely successful housing developments in the 1940s and 1950s. The profits from Fred’s enterprises paved the way for President Trump’s roller-coaster ride through the 1980s and 1990s into the new century. With his talent for extravagant exaggeration—he calls it “truthful hyperbole”—President Trump turned the deal-making know-how of his forebears into an art form. By placing this much-publicized life within the context of family, Gwenda Blair adds a new dimension to the larger-than-life figure who ascended to the American Presidency.

Book A Wild Discouraging Mess

Download or read book A Wild Discouraging Mess written by Julie Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On the White Pass Pay Roll  Classic Reprint

Download or read book On the White Pass Pay Roll Classic Reprint written by S. H. Graves and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the White Pass Pay-Roll About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Grit  grief and gold

Download or read book Grit grief and gold written by Fenton B. Whiting and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grit, Grief and Gold is an eyewitness account of pioneering railroad building in Alaska. Dr. Fenton B. Whiting was chief surgeon during the construction of the White Pass & Yukon Route, built during the Yukon Gold Rush by his friend M.J. Heney. He later served in the same capacity during Heney's construction of the Copper River & Northwestern Railway. The story includes construction through some of the most impassable terrain imaginable, encounters with outlaw Soapy Smith and prospector George Carmack, the successful completion of both lines and Heney's tragic death after a shipwreck in Alaska's waters.This reprinting of Grit, Grief and Gold has been enriched with over seventy additional photographs and includes an appendix that expands on Dr. Whiting's account.

Book  That Fiend in Hell

Download or read book That Fiend in Hell written by Catherine Holder Spude and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Gold Rush Narrow Gauge

Download or read book Gold Rush Narrow Gauge written by Cy Martin and published by Interurban Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death of a Con Man

Download or read book Death of a Con Man written by G. R. Williamson and published by Indian Head Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The undisputed king of the confidence men of the Old West, Jefferson Randolph Smith II (Soapy Smith) ruled criminal gangs in Colorado and Alaska. No other scoundrel could match Soapy Smith’s utter audacity and unrelenting pursuit of skinning a sucker. He was a genius at running a scam, at organizing a gang of confederates, and at paying off authorities. He had the inherent ability to look a man in the eye and lie like every word was etched in stone.  But, on July 8 1898, Soapy was killed in a shootout in Skagway, Alaska. At the time, newspapers attributed a man, Frank Reid, with putting the fatal bullet through Soapy’s heart. Now, 100 years later, historical research has shown that was not the case. Death of a Con Man is a concise, accurate account of the truth behind the myth. Entertaining, as well as informative, the story of the most notorious con man is told with many vintage photographs

Book Canadian Frontiers of Settlement

Download or read book Canadian Frontiers of Settlement written by William Archibald Mackintosh and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Six Guns and Saddle Leather

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ramon Frederick Adams
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1998-02-25
  • ISBN : 9780486400358
  • Pages : 846 pages

Download or read book Six Guns and Saddle Leather written by Ramon Frederick Adams and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-02-25 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.

Book Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Download or read book Draft Environmental Impact Statement written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Final Environmental Statement

Download or read book Final Environmental Statement written by United States. Bureau of Land Management and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: