Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Dawson Daily News, July 21, 1909
Author: Dawson Daily News
Author: Dawson News Publishing CoPublisher:
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Category : Yukon
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Dawson, Yukon Territory
Author: Canadian Frontiers of Settlement
Author: William Archibald MackintoshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Frontier Spirit
Author: Jennifer DuncanPublisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385672462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
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.
The Mining West
Author: Richard E. LingenfelterPublisher:
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
This two-volume set cites books, pamphlets, maps, music, directories, and other published materials (excluding materials from technical and popular magazines and newspapers) on the history of mining in the American and Canadian West. Topics covered include prospecting, mining rushes and camps, and mining finance, labor, technology, law, literature, and lore. The initial portion provides general information on mining and metalurgical technology. The subsequent regional sections are subdivided into refined historical studies, raw materials, fictional and poetic treatments, and bibliographical guides to further materials. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
The Bishop who Ate His Boots
Author: Frank Alexander PeakePublisher: [Don Mills, Ont. : T.H. Best Printing] for The Anglican Church of Canada
ISBN:
Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Biography of missionary to Eskimos of Herschel Island who became Bishop of Yukon and later Archbishop of Rupert's Land.
Settlement and the Forest Frontier in Eastern Canada
Author: Arthur Reginald Marsden LowerPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia, Victoria
Author: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Author: Edward Forbes Bush