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Klondike : The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899 by Pierre Berton (1994, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMcClelland & Stewart
ISBN-100771012845
ISBN-139780771012846
eBay Product ID (ePID)951024
Product Key Features
Book TitleKlondike : the Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral
Publication Year1994
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorPierre Berton
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight8.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"A fascinating book of permanent value." -The Globe and Mail "A comprehensive and absolutely first-rate history." -The New Yorker "An epic account … fascinating and exciting." -The Observer, London "Pierre Berton writes 24-carat gold." -The Edmonton Journal
Dewey Decimal971.9/1
SynopsisWith 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.
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