The Klondike Gold Rush - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Klondike Gold Rush write by Marc Tyler Nobleman. This book was released on 2006. The Klondike Gold Rush available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Learn about the famous gold rush and its consequences.
The Nature of Gold
The Nature of Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature of Gold write by Kathryn Morse. This book was released on 2009-11-23. The Nature of Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging setting. Ever since that time, the Klondike Gold Rush - especially as portrayed in photographs of long lines of gold seekers marching up Chilkoot Pass - has had a hold on the popular imagination. In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America�s transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural laborers across the country. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times. The story Morse tells is often narrated through the diaries and letters of the miners themselves. The daunting challenges of traveling, working, and surviving in the raw wilderness are illustrated not only by the miners� compelling accounts but by newspaper reports and advertisements. Seattle played a key role as �gateway to the Klondike.� A public relations campaign lured potential miners to the West and local businesses seized the opportunity to make large profits while thousands of gold seekers streamed through Seattle. The drama of the miners� journeys north, their trials along the gold creeks, and their encounters with an extreme climate will appeal not only to scholars of the western environment and of late-19th-century industrialism, but to readers interested in reliving the vivid adventure of the West�s last great gold rush.
Yukon Gold
Yukon Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yukon Gold write by Charlotte Foltz Jones. This book was released on 1999. Yukon Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gold fever!When the steamships Excelsior and Portland docked in San Francisco and Seattle in the spring of 1897 bringing news that gold had been discovered in the Canadian Yukon, gold fever hit. Soon thousands of stampeders from as far away as Europe were making their way to the Klondike, sure that they were going to strike it rich. Very few had even the slightest idea of just how inhospitable the Klondike was, how dangerous the journey would be, and how slim their chances were of making enough money there just to turn around and get home. With striking and often poignant archival photographs and an engaging text, Charlotte Jones explains the events leading up to the Yukon gold rush and the amazing events that followed the discovery of gold and changed Alaska forever. Maps, bibliography, and index are included.
Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush
Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush write by Peter Lourie. This book was released on 2017-03-28. Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. -A middle grade biography of Jack London that sheds light on how he drew upon adventure and life experience to create works of literature---
Call of the Klondike
Call of the Klondike - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Call of the Klondike write by David Meissner. This book was released on 2016-11-04. Call of the Klondike available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction The remarkable tale of two young men during the Klondike Gold Rush, told through first-hand diaries, letters, and more—“excellent reading” for middle grade fans of The Call of the Wild and adventure stories (School Library Journal) As thousands head north in search of gold, Marshall Bond and Stanley Pearce join them, booking passage on a steamship bound for the Klondike goldfields. The journey is life threatening, but the two friends make it to Dawson City, in Canada, build a cabin, and meet Jack London—all the while searching for the ultimate reward: gold! A riveting, true, action-packed adventure, with their telegrams, diaries, and letters, as well as newspaper articles and photographs. An author’s note, timeline, bibliography, and further resources encourage readers to dig deeper into the Gold Rush era.
