The Yukon: Life Between the Gold Rush and the Alaska Highway, Paperback - Joann Robertson

Reducere. DescriptionJOANN ROBERTSON'S GRANDFATHER MOVED TO THE YUKON in 1897 to make his fortune. He did not succeed at that, but he did fall in love with t...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rush written by participants *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of co...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keith Halliday"She's just a girl " shouted Windy Bill. When Aurore hears these words, she knows notorious Alaskan bandit So...

Reducere. A boy on the Alcan is an intriguing story of seven year old Eddie Byskal. He was born in a small Missions Hospital on the shore of Wakaw Lake, Sask...

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. It i...

Reducere. Hunter Fitzhugh left St. Louis in 1897 dreaming of fortune and adventure, bound for the Yukon Territory, where it was rumored that nuggets of gold ...

Reducere. The great Klondike Gold Rush began in 1896 and within two years, thousands of prospectors, speculators and people from countless walks of life desc...

Publisher: Outlook Words & ArtAuthor(s): David ZiebartNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 258 x 167 x 8Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pierre BertonIn 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion the incredible succession of events that Pi...

Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 2011, Betsy Quinn took it upon herself to finish a project first started by her great-grandmother in the 1920's: publish a memoir chr...

Reducere. A boy on the Alcan is an intriguing story of seven year old Eddie Byskal. He was born in a small Missions Hospital on the shore of Wakaw Lake, Sask...

Reducere. Imagine you live in a self-contained village where your parents and their parents and all your forebears from the beginning of time have lived. Ima...

Reducere. The long car carried the men down into the depths of the Empire Gold Mine outside of Grass Valley, California. The year is 1850. These men are work...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore what daily life was like for the miners and the methods they used to search for gold.Even before the first glorious ring of the ...

DescriptionThe long car carried the men down into the depths of the Empire Gold Mine outside of Grass Valley, California. The year is 1850. These m...

Reducere. DescriptionSee those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a moose, a mous...

Reducere. Storytelling is a precious, vibrant tradition among the Native peoples of the Far North. Collected here for the first time are stories from the com...

Reducere. In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners poured into the region. This souther...

Reducere. After gold was discovered in California in 1848, thousands of people rushed there to strike it rich. They faced tough choices at every turn. Now th...

Reducere. 16 lectures, various cities, Oct. 26, 1912 - May 13, 1913 (CW 140) In these lectures Steiner deals with the experiences of the human soul during an...

Reducere. Did you know that the California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration event in the history of the United States of America?More than 300, 000 p...

Reducere. Did you know that the California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration event in the history of the United States of America?More than 300, 000 p...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a fear of invasion swept North America--particularly the West Coast. Immediate steps needed t...

Reducere. Romantic history-filled names have long fired the imagination of every reader and visitor to the Northland. In Alaska-Yukon Place Names, author Jam...

Reducere. On December 7, 1941 the United States suddenly found itself at war with the Empire of Japan. Alaska's Aleutian Island chain led through the North P...

Reducere. The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social histor...

Reducere. When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, -It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive...

Reducere. In this theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social significance ...

Reducere. YOU are a New Englander with a bad case of gold fever. Gold has been discovered in California, and you want to go claim some for yourself. Will you...