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Stampede : gold fever and disaster in the Klondike / Brian Castner.
Van Pelt Library F1095.K5 C37 2021b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castner, Brian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gold mines and mining--Yukon--History--19th century.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Gold mines and mining--Alaska--History--19th century.
- Gold miners--Yukon--Klondike River Valley--History--19th century.
- Gold miners.
- Gold mines and mining--Yukon--Klondike River Valley--History--19th century.
- Pioneers--Yukon--Klondike River Valley.
- Pioneers.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Yukon--Klondike River Valley.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- History.
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries.
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon).
- Alaska.
- Yukon.
- Yukon--Klondike River Valley.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 269 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- Gold fever and disaster in the Klondike
- Place of Publication:
- [Toronto] : McClelland & Stewart, 2021.
- Summary:
- "The electrifying announcement in 1897 that gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities in the Klondike River region in remote Alaska was demonically well-timed to attract an exodus of economically desperate Americans. Within weeks, tens of thousands of them were embarking from western ports to throw themselves at some of the harshest terrain on the planet--in winter, yet--woefully unprepared, with no experience at all in mining or mountaineering. It was a mass delusion that quickly proved deadly. Brian Castner tells the unvarnished yet always striking and often amazing truth of this greed-fuelled migration."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Published simultaneously in the United States by Doubleday.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Castner, Brian. Stampede.
- ISBN:
- 9780771018695
- 077101869X
- OCLC:
- 1245578919
- Publisher Number:
- 99987674541
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