Gold at Fortymile Creek tells the story of the search for gold in the Yukon before the great Klondike gold rush. Michael Gates writes about the life and times of the early pioneers, who suffered unimaginable hardships in search of the big strike. It is a story about survival and adversity, life and...

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1. Verfasser:	Gates, Michael (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Vancouver UBC Press 1994
Schlagworte:	Or - Mines et extraction - Yukon Or - Mines et extraction - Yukon, Vallée du (Yukon et Alaska) Vie des pionniers - Yukon Vie des pionniers - Yukon, Vallée du (Yukon et Alaska) Geschichte Frontier and pioneer life > Yukon Frontier and pioneer life > Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) Gold mines and mining > Yukon Gold mines and mining > Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) Goldsuche Yukon, Vallée du (Yukon et Alaska) - Découvertes d'or Yukon, Vallée du (Yukon et Alaska) - Histoire Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) > Gold discoveries Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) > History Yukon Territory Yukon River
Zusammenfassung:	Gold at Fortymile Creek tells the story of the search for gold in the Yukon before the great Klondike gold rush. Michael Gates writes about the life and times of the early pioneers, who suffered unimaginable hardships in search of the big strike. It is a story about survival and adversity, life and death, good times and bad on one of the harshest, most formidable frontiers in the world. The book, based on the accounts of dozens of prospectors, follows the first gold-seekers from their arrival in 1873 until the stampede to the Klondike in 1896. Gates captures the essence of these early years of the gold rush, about which very little has been written. He chronicles the trials, heartbreaks, and successes of the unique and hardy individualists who searched for gold in the wilderness. With names like Swiftwater Bill, Crooked Leg Louie, Slobbery Tom, and Tin Kettle George, these men lived in total isolation beyond the borders of civilization. They were often eccentrics and outcasts, who shaped their own rules, their own justice, and their own social order. Into this no-man's-land came the harbingers of civilization: the traders, missionaries, gentlemen travellers, pioneer women, North-West Mounted Police, and countless others who populated the rough-and-ready settlements - Port Reliance, Forty Mile, Circle, and Dawson - which grew up around each new find. Fascinating and informative, Gold at Fortymile Creek tells the story of a ragtag group of risk-takers and dreamers, who set the stage for one of the most remarkable events of the nineteenth century - the Klondike gold rush.
Beschreibung:	XV, 200 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:	0774804688 0774804920