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1) Journey

Author

Michener, James A

Language

English

Formats

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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One of the premier novelists of the twentieth century, James A. Michener captures a frenzied time when sane men and women risked their very lives in a forbidding Arctic land to win a dazzling and elusive prize: Yukon gold. In 1897, gold fever sweeps the world. The promise of untold riches lures thousands of dreamers from all walks of life on a perilous trek toward fortune, failure—or death. Journey is an immersive account of the adventures...

2) Klondike lost: a decade of photographs by Kinsey & Kinsey

Author

Bolotin, Norm

Publisher

Alaska Northwest Pub. Co

Pub. Date

1980

Language

English

3) One man's gold rush: a Klondike album

Author

Morgan, Murray

Publisher

University of Washington Press

Pub. Date

1972, c1967

Language

English

4) The call of the wild

Author

London, Jack

Series

Puffin Classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"Californian family dog Buck is happy spending his days eating and sleeping. That is until he is kidnapped, and is forced to work in the frozen north of Alaska as a sledge dog. Passed from owner to owner, Buck sets out on a remarkable journey to ensure his own survival. Will he make it? And, when tested, how hard will he struggle against returning to the wild? Packed with tension and excitement, Jack London's atmospheric story of adventure and endurance...

5) Hard drive to the Klondike: promoting Seattle during the Gold Rush : a Historic Resource Study for the Seattle unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

Author

Mighetto, Lisa

Publisher

The Office

Pub. Date

[1988, i.i. 1999]

Language

English

6) Children of the Gold Rush

Author

Murphy, Claire Rudolf

Publisher

Alaska Northwest Books

Pub. Date

2001.

Language

English

7) The luminaries: a novel

Author

Catton, Eleanor

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Pub. Date

2013

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

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This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single...

8) Jack London and the Klondike gold rush

Author

Lourie, Peter

Language

English

Description

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"A middle grade biography of Jack London that sheds light on how he drew upon adventure and life experience to create works of literature"--

9) The floor of heaven: a true tale of the last frontier and the Yukon gold rush

Author

Blum, Howard

Publisher

Crown Trade

Pub. Date

c2011

Language

English

Description

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Using primary source materials from three individuals around whom the narrative revolves, best-selling author Blum tells a fascinating story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.

10) The Klondike gold rush

Publisher

[Gold Rush Productions Inc.]

Pub. Date

[2014]

Language

English

Description

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Renowned as the richest gold strike in North American mining history, the Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1899) set off a stampede of over 100,000 people on a colossal journey from Alaska to the gold fields of Canada's Yukon Territory. The Klondike Gold Rush is an incredible story of determination, luck, fortune, and loss. In the end, it isńt all about the gold, but rather the journey to the Klondike itself.

11) Sarah journeys west: an Oregon Trail survival story

Author

Smith, Nikki Shannon

Series

Girls survive

Language

English

Description

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In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness,...