Author: S. H. Graves
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
On the "White Pass" Pay-roll
Author: S. H. Graves
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
On the "White Pass" Pay-roll
Author: S. H. Graves
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Mimeograph typescript of the text of the book published in Chicago, Illinois by The Lakeside Press, 1908. The book is largely a memoir of the first company president containing anecdotes and observations of the day to day operations of building and operating a railroad in difficult conditions over the period of its first ten years that was spurred on by a gold rush in the Klondike River Valley. Also includes a photocopy of a typescript letter, dated January 2, 1959, by an unknown author in Seattle, Washington to Ellis J. McClanahan in Hillsborough, California in which the author notes that the typescript he is sending along was created about 25 years prior to the date of the letter. The two correspondents appear to have been co-workers at some point in the past at the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Mimeograph typescript of the text of the book published in Chicago, Illinois by The Lakeside Press, 1908. The book is largely a memoir of the first company president containing anecdotes and observations of the day to day operations of building and operating a railroad in difficult conditions over the period of its first ten years that was spurred on by a gold rush in the Klondike River Valley. Also includes a photocopy of a typescript letter, dated January 2, 1959, by an unknown author in Seattle, Washington to Ellis J. McClanahan in Hillsborough, California in which the author notes that the typescript he is sending along was created about 25 years prior to the date of the letter. The two correspondents appear to have been co-workers at some point in the past at the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad
On the White Pass Pay-Roll
Author: S. H. Graves
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781341353031
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781341353031
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
White Pass and Yukon Route
Author: White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm)
Publisher: [United States : s.n.], c1923 ([Chicago : Poole Bros.])
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher: [United States : s.n.], c1923 ([Chicago : Poole Bros.])
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Trumps
Author: Gwenda Blair
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501139363
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The definitive family biography of President Donald Trump. The revealing story of the Trumps mirrors America’s transformation from a land of striving immigrants to a world in which the aura of wealth alone can guarantee a fortune. The Trumps begins with a portrait of President Trump’s immigrant grandfather, who as a young man built hotels for miners in Alaska during the Klondike gold rush. His son, Fred, took advantage of the New Deal, using government subsidies and loopholes to construct hugely successful housing developments in the 1940s and 1950s. The profits from Fred’s enterprises paved the way for President Trump’s roller-coaster ride through the 1980s and 1990s into the new century. With his talent for extravagant exaggeration—he calls it “truthful hyperbole”—President Trump turned the deal-making know-how of his forebears into an art form. By placing this much-publicized life within the context of family, Gwenda Blair adds a new dimension to the larger-than-life figure who ascended to the American Presidency.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501139363
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The definitive family biography of President Donald Trump. The revealing story of the Trumps mirrors America’s transformation from a land of striving immigrants to a world in which the aura of wealth alone can guarantee a fortune. The Trumps begins with a portrait of President Trump’s immigrant grandfather, who as a young man built hotels for miners in Alaska during the Klondike gold rush. His son, Fred, took advantage of the New Deal, using government subsidies and loopholes to construct hugely successful housing developments in the 1940s and 1950s. The profits from Fred’s enterprises paved the way for President Trump’s roller-coaster ride through the 1980s and 1990s into the new century. With his talent for extravagant exaggeration—he calls it “truthful hyperbole”—President Trump turned the deal-making know-how of his forebears into an art form. By placing this much-publicized life within the context of family, Gwenda Blair adds a new dimension to the larger-than-life figure who ascended to the American Presidency.
On the White Pass Pay-Roll (Classic Reprint)
Author: S. H. Graves
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781332410576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Excerpt from On the White Pass Pay-Roll About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781332410576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Excerpt from On the White Pass Pay-Roll About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Wild Discouraging Mess
Author: Julie Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Efficiency as a Basis for Operation and Wages
Author: Harrington Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
"That Fiend in Hell"
Author: Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806188189
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the “uncrowned king of Skagway,” remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in ’98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game. With Smith’s death, Skagway rid itself of crime forever. Or at least, so the story goes. Journalists immediately cast him as a martyr whose death redeemed a violent town. In fact, he was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Spude concludes that the actual Soapy was not the legendary “boss of Skagway,” nor was he killed by Frank Reid, as early historians supposed. She shows that even eyewitnesses who knew the truth later changed their stories to fit the myth. But why? Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway’s boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith’s death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway’s economic interests. Spude’s engaging deconstruction of Soapy’s story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806188189
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the “uncrowned king of Skagway,” remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in ’98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game. With Smith’s death, Skagway rid itself of crime forever. Or at least, so the story goes. Journalists immediately cast him as a martyr whose death redeemed a violent town. In fact, he was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Spude concludes that the actual Soapy was not the legendary “boss of Skagway,” nor was he killed by Frank Reid, as early historians supposed. She shows that even eyewitnesses who knew the truth later changed their stories to fit the myth. But why? Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway’s boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith’s death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway’s economic interests. Spude’s engaging deconstruction of Soapy’s story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier.