A Short History of the Yukon Order of Pioneers
Author | : John A. Gould |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Pioneers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John A. Gould |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Pioneers |
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Author | : Ed Ferrell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : 9780788400872 |
The selections of the biographies are based on what the compiler found on the microfilms. The entries were typed as is, reflecting the style of the original writer.
Author | : Anna DeGraf |
Publisher | : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Anna DeGraf, an independent pioneer, recounts her twenty-five years of adventure in Alaska and the Yukon Territory before, during, and after the Gold Rush.
Author | : John A. Gould |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Pioneers |
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Author | : Benjamin Taylor A. Bell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1250 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Mineral industries |
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Author | : Michael Gates |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0774842776 |
The book, based on the accounts of dozens of prospectors, follows the first gold-seekers from their arrival in 1873 until the stampede to the Klondike in 1896. Gates captures the essence of these early years of the gold rush, about which very little has been written. He chronicles the trials, hearbreaks, and successes of the unique and hardy individualists who searched for gold in the wilderness. With names like Swiftwater Bill, Crooked Leg Louie, Slobbery Tom, and Tin Kettle George, these men lived in total isolation beyond the borders of civilization. They were often eccentrics and outcasts, who shaped their own rules, their own justice, and their own social order.
Author | : |
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Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Mineral industries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jennifer Duncan |
Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2010-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385672462 |
She may have been holding a gun, or an axe, or her hiked-up skirts, but she was there, in the Klondike of the Gold Rush. And her decision to venture everything on the dream of northern gold was in every way bolder and riskier than any man’s. In Frontier Spirit, Jennifer Duncan celebrates the lives of women who, in defiance of traditional expectations, left their homes, their families, and their professions, to make the arduous journey through a punishing climate and unfamiliar wilderness to seek their fortunes in the Klondike. The story of women in the Klondike begins with the strong and knowledgeable women who were there before the race for riches began -- First Nations women like Shaaw Tláa, whose experience and traditional skills were critical to the survival of her white prospector husband, and ultimately, to the discovery that sparked the Gold Rush. The white women who joined the Klondike Stampede came from all walks of life: rich and poor, educated and illiterate, single and married. Wealthy socialite Martha Black left her world of comfort to pursue a career as a miner, mill manager, and politician on the northern frontier. Belinda Mulrooney, an Irish farm girl, arrived in Dawson with a quarter to her name but used her business acumen and canny resourcefulness to turn the shantytown into a city and herself into its richest woman. And then there’s Kate Rockwell, a working-class girl from Kansas City, whose thirst for fame and adulation led her over the treacherous waters of the Whitehorse rapids and fired her ascent to the title of Queen of the Klondike. Duncan has spent the last five years experiencing Dawson City in all its seasons and, like the women who came before her, she has fallen under the spell of the North, coming to love its wilderness, its challenges, and its rugged glory. With remarkable empathy, imagination and personal insight, Duncan creates an engrossing portrait of the splendour of the Yukon, breathing life into the stories of the daring and diverse women of the Klondike and the grandeur of the adventurers who gambled everything to find their fortunes there.
Author | : James A. McQuiston |
Publisher | : Father of the Yukon |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781432714581 |
So, why'd they call him Jack? Born Leroy Napoleon McQuesten, this Yukon legend was given the moniker of "Captain Jack" after his heroic rescue of ship and crew, on his first trip out on salt water, at the age of 22. A magnet for nicknames, he became known as Father of the Yukon, Father of Alaska, Golden Rule McQuesten, Prince of Goodfellows and a host of other affectionate titles. Famous authors, Jack London and Pierre Berton, were fans of Captain Jack and wrote extensively on him. Early Yukon explorers, Frederick Schwatka and William Ogilvie, did the same. Though captain of the very first steamboats on the Yukon, chief trader on the river, and grubstaker of thousands of gold miners, Jack's story has lain hidden in the pages of several dozen books and newspapers, until now. "Captain Jack: Father of the Yukon" is the definitive work on this true American hero and his adventures in the final frontier.
Author | : Kenneth Coates |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Indigenous peoples |
ISBN | : 0773527567 |
This title is aimed at those interested in the Yukon's history, from the pre-gold rush days through the 'lean' years and both wars to the present.