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Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild more books like this

by Jack London

THE CALL OF THE WILD, Jack London's masterpiece, tells the gripping tale of a dog named Buck who is wrenched out of his life of ease and luxury to become a sled dog in Alaska. Drawing on his wolf heritage, Buck must fight for survival in an alien environment.

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Yukon Justice

Yukon Justice more books like this

by Dana Fuller Ross

A brand new novel in the bestselling, three-million-copy series, from the author of the Wagons West! saga. In the fall of 1896, Frank Blake flees Sierra, California, for the untamed Yukon and the promise of gold. Meanwhile, in New York, Janessa Holt finds herself up against the establishment when she becomes an outspoken proponent of birth control.

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Journey

Journey more books like this

by James A Michener

When news breaks in England in 1897 that gold has been discovered in the Canadian Klondike, Lord Evelyn Luton, a veteran explorer, resolves to set sail at once for the goldfields. This thriller charts the attempts of Luton and his men to reach the Klondike despite set-backs and freezing cold.

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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 more books like this

by Pierre Berton

In 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion the incredible succession of events that Pierre Berton's exhilarating The Klondike Fever chronicles in all its splendid and astonishing folly. For the steamer Portland bore two tons of pure Klondike gold. And immediately, the stampede north to Alaska began. Easily as many as 100 ...

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The spell of the Yukon

The spell of the Yukon more books like this

by Robert W Service

One said: Thy life is thine to make or mar, To flicker feebly, or to soar, a star; It lies with thee -- the choice is thine, is thine, To hit the ties or drive thy auto-car.

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Cremation of Sam McGee

Cremation of Sam McGee more books like this

by Robert W Service

Originally a bank teller, Robert Services' life changed when he found himself transferred to Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory. Like everybody else, Service was smitten by the gold rush. Only Service mined words, not gold, and within five years was famous as the poet who had captured the essence of the fever, the adventure, the men, and the women. ...

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The Yukon Queen

The Yukon Queen more books like this

by Gilbert Morris

Cassidy Winslow promises a dying man that he will take his daughter to the Klondike gold fields of Alaska to search for gold--but the struggle to stake a claim is more than they bargained for.

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The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay 1897-1899

The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay 1897-1899 more books like this

by Pierre Berton

Now in paperback: A special edition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Klondike gold rush -- written by Canada's leading popular historian and illustrated with over 200 rare period photographs.

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I married the Klondike.

I married the Klondike. more books like this

by Laura Beatrice Berton (Thompson)

Now Back in Print! "I Married the Klondike is a Canadian classic that has been anthologized, serialized and televised and in her twilight years it brought to my mother a modicum of fame, which she thoroughly enjoyed." --Pierre Berton

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Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon

Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon more books like this

by John Hildebrand

Exploring the riverway of northwestern Canada and Alaska in a canoe, Hildebrand's personal account of river fish camps, good-hearted girls in the towns, sullen natives and cranky old-timers provides a record of a journey as much inward as it is outward.

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Running North: A Yukon Adventure more books like this

by Ann Mariah Cook

What happens when a woman and her husband move their family from New Hampshire to Alaska to train a team of purebred Siberian Huskies for the world's toughest dogsled race, the Yukon Quest? They endure thousands of miles of lonely training in the Yukon trying to avoid thin ice, wolves, and rogue moose; they put up with the amused skepticism of ...

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Gold Rush Women more books like this

by Claire Rudolf Murphy, Jane G Haigh

This book gathers the riveting stories of adventurous women-miners, madams, merchants, and mothers -- who went North during the gold rush era.

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The son of the wolf tales of the far North more books like this

by Jack London

Although Jack London (1876-1916) wrote on a great variety of subjects, he gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. At the age of twenty-one London himself had trekked to the Yukon in hope of easy riches. What he found instead was a wealth of extraordinary experience, which he turned to account in his ...

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Crooked Stovepipe more books like this

by Craig Mishler

Named for a popular local fiddle tune, The Crooked Stovepipe is a rollicking, detailed, first-ever study of the indigenous fiddle music and social dancing enjoyed by the Gwich'in Athapaskan Indians and other tribal groups in northeast Alaska, the Yukon, and the northwest territories. Though the music has obvious roots in the British Isles, French ...

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The Klondike stampede more books like this

by Edwin Tappan Adney

This classic in Yukon gold rush literature was originally published in 1900 and has long been out of print. Tappan Adney, a New York journalist, was dispatched to the Yukon in 1897, at the height of the gold fever, to "furnish news and pictures of the new gold fields." Adney joined the northward migration, chronicling the day-to-day experiences of ...

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Wildflowers Along the Alaska Highway more books like this

by Verna E Pratt, Frank G Pratt (Editor)

A guide to the flowers seen along the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek, BC to Fairbanks. AK. This book is arranged by color and has color bars on the edges of pages.

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Good Time Girls: Of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush more books like this

by Lael Morgan

A study of the lives of women who sought new job opportunities that the Gold Rush offered.

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The Alaska-Yukon wild flowers guide more books like this

by Helen A. White

A Northland wildflower book that features large color photographs and black-and-white drawings of every species included.

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Ballads of a Cheechako more books like this

by Robert W Service

BALLADS OF A CHEECHAKO ROBERT W. SERVICE - To the Man of the High North MY rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming Ive drifted, silver-sailed, on seas of dream, Hearing afar the bells of Elfland chiming, Seeing the groves of Arcadie agleam. I was the thrall of Beauty that rejoices From peak snow-diademed to regal star Yet to mine aerie ever ...

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Dangerous River: Adventure on the Nahanni more books like this

by Raymond M Patterson

R. M. Patterson's best-selling book "The Dangerous River" is back in print in its unabridged version and ready to take readers down the treacherous and challenging waters of the Nahanni River once again. Written with Patterson's characteristic sharp wit and observation, the book chronicles the year he spent battling the temperatures and wild ...

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White Pass: Gateway to the Klondike more books like this

by Roy Minter

By the thousands they came, the gold-seekers of 1897 pouring through Alaska's White and Chilkoot passes on their way to the Klondike and to fortune. Then came entrepreneurs, bunco artists, and before long, engineers and financiers whose ambition was to build a railway through the White Pass's rocky precipices. This is the epic northern adventure ...

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Staking Her Claim: Life of Belinda Mulrooney more books like this

by Melanie J Mayer, R N DeArmond (Contributions by)

This biography of Mulroony, enterprising gold rush entrepreneur, provides insight into the gold rush culture, while specifically concentrating on her business acumen and rare independence.

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A dog-puncher on the Yukon more books like this

by Arthur Treadwell Walden

Originally published in 1928, Walden's narrative is still one of the most exciting books ever written about dog mushing or the great gold rushes.

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Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest: Maps of Exploration and Discovery: British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Yukon more books like this

by Derek Hayes

A one-of-a-kind collection of maps created by the navigators, explorers, and cartographers who first charted the Northwest. Representing four centuries of discovery and exploration, this unique reference book is a must-have for anyone interested in Northwest history. The Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest showcases more than 320 original ...

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Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders more books like this

by Julie Cruikshank

'This is an exemplary work...It is thorough, clear, and wonderfully detailed. What's more, it is co-authored in a real, rather than a fictive sense, bringing to the reader a kind of authenticity and bite that is rarely available...Certainly specialists will be fascinated with this study, but it is so readable, so interesting, so innovative, that I ...

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