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The Great Klondike Gold Rush |
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| Format | Softcover | |
| Catalogue No. | 1-897252-05-6 | |
| Pages | 290 | |
| Language | English only | |
| Price on sale | $13.95 (reduced from $21.99) | |
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Written by Pierre Berton. Published by Fifth House Ltd., 2007. Description: |
| The fourth and final book in the exciting Pierre Berton's
History for Young Canadians series is The Great Klondike Gold
Rush. Canada’s best-known writer, Pierre Berton, tells the stories of
the prospectors, the gold seekers, and the unforgiving land and gold that drove
them mad. The Great Klondike Gold Rush is Berton's acclaimed six-book
history of North America's last great gold rush. Join Pierre Berton as he writes about the discovery of gold on an obscure northern creek by Robert Henderson, the professional prospector, and George Carmack, the amateur gold-seeker and salmon fisherman. Revel in the glory days of boomtown Dawson City, a mud-splattered collection of shacks full of the craziest characters on the Yukon River. Witness the lives of the old-time prospectors, who “craved the widest possible freedom of action,” characters such as Salt Water Jack, Jimmy the Pirate, Pete the Pig, and Cutthroat Johnson. Included in this omnibus are the previously published books:
“Because he grew up in Dawson City, Yukon, in the afterglow of the greatest gold rush this continent has ever known, no story was closer to Pierre Berton's heart than the one he tells in this volume....Only a few men struck it rich in the Klondike Gold Rush. But nobody who survived the adventure ever forgot it. The same can be said of this book. If you read it, you will never forget it.” – from the foreword by Ken McGoogan, author of Lady Franklin's Revenge and winner of the 2006 Pierre Berton Award.Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Also from Pierre Berton's History for Young Canadians series: The Battles of the War of 1812 Canada Moves West |
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