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The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush

The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Pierre BertonPublish date:2003-12-17Pages:457
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780786713172ISBN-10:786713178UPC:9780786713172Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:CanadaSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 1.60 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC535Z40CR
"A lively saga" (New York Times) of the great Alaska gold rush--a story of cold skies and avalanches, con men and gamblers and dance hall girls, grizzly old miners and millionaires

In 1897 a grimy steamer bearing two tons of pure Klondike gold docked in Seattle, immediately triggering a stampede north to Alaska. In his exhilarating The Klondike Fever, Pierre Berton chronicles the incredible succession of events that followed in all their splendid and astonishing folly.

As many as 100,000 adventurers, dreamers, and would-be miners from all over the world struck out for the remote, isolated gold fields of the Klondike Valley, most of them in total ignorance of the long, harsh Alaskan winters and the territory's indomitable terrain. Less than a third of that number would complete the enormously arduous mountain journey to their destination, and fewer still would strike gold.

Berton's story belongs less to those who would make their fortunes than to the many swept up in the gold mania who met misfortune and tragic ends. The Klondike Fever is a stirring testament to the human capacity to dream, and to endure.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780786713172ISBN-10:786713178UPC:9780786713172Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:CanadaSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 1.60 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC535Z40CR
Pierre Berton was the author of fifty books, including the New York Times bestseller The Arctic Grail, Niagara, The Invasion of Canada, and Flames Across the Border. He received three Governor General's awards for non-fiction, two National Newspaper Awards, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and the National History Society's inaugural Pierre Berton Award. He was a member of the Newsman's Hall of Fame and a Companion of the Order of Canada and lived in Ontario until his death in 2005
Publisher: Basic Books

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