Download or read book REMINISCENCES OF THE YUKON written by STRATFORD. TOLLEMACHE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of the Yukon written by S. Tollemache and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gamblers and Dreamers written by Charlene Porsild and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Bulletin written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Klondike written by Pierre Berton and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a poker game; and Roddy Connors, who danced away a fortune at a dollar a dance. We meet dance-hall queens, paupers turned millionaires, missionaries and entrepreneurs, and legendary Mounties such as Sam Steele, the Lion of the Yukon. Pierre Berton's riveting account reveals to us the spectacle of the Chilkoot Pass, and the terrors of lesser-known trails through the swamps of British Columbia, across the glaciers of souther Alaska, and up the icy streams of the Mackenzie Mountains. It contrasts the lawless frontier life on the American side of the border to the relative safety of Dawson City. Winner of the Governor General's award for non-fiction, Klondike is authentic history and grand entertainment, and a must-read for anyone interested in the Canadian frontier.
Download or read book Review of historical publications relating to Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of the Yukon written by Stratford Haliday Robert Louis Tollemache and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's experiences in the Yukon Territory, 1898-1909, including his mining activities in the Klondike region in the gold rush years, and trapping in the later years.
Download or read book Service Memories written by Sir Anthony Dickson Home and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada written by George McKinnon Wrong and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1st volume (1896) includes important publications of 1895.
Download or read book Science written by John Michels (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliography of Alaskan Literature 1724 1924 written by James Wickersham and published by Cordova, Alaska : Cordova daily times print. This book was released on 1927 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Aunt Phil s Trunk written by Laurel, Bill and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2016-07-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Three entertains readers as they travel through Alaska's history from 1912 to 1935. This book of nonfiction short stories highlights the pioneering spirit of early Alaskans as they enter a new era as a territory of the United States. As with the first two books, Volume Three is filled with close to 350 historical photographs. Downing Bill weaves page-turning narratives. Readers follow along as men with axes, hammers and mauls pound a path through the vast Alaska wilderness to lay railroad tracks that connect the deep-water port of Seward in the south to the territory's interior town of Fairbanks in the north. Through the stories in this volume, readers watch a railroad construction town grow out of the tundra to become Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. Volume Three also shares stories about epidemics and disasters, including the Great Sickness of 1918, the sinking of the steamship Princess Sophia in Southeast Alaska and the incredible diphtheria serum run in 1925 when brave mushers and their tenacious dogs saved the town of Nome from certain death. This book shines a light on early aviators who blazed new trails through Alaska skies, how the Alaska Native people struggled for recognition and how farmers from America's Midwest carved out an agricultural community in the wild Matanuska Valley. It ends with the fatal airplane crash of humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post near Barrow in 1935.
Download or read book A Catalogue of books written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arctic Bibliography written by Arctic Institute of North America and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home Mission Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
