Klondike
The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899
With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a poker game; and Roddy Connors, who danced away a fortune at a dollar a dance. We meet dance-hall queens, paupers turned millionaires, missionaries and entrepreneurs, and legendary Mounties such as Sam Steele, the Lion of the Yukon.
Pierre Berton's riveting account reveals to us the spectacle of the Chilkoot Pass, and the…
$26.95
October 9, 2001
Pierre Berton was one of Canada’s most popular and prolific authors. From narrative histories and popular culture, to picture and coffee table books to anthologies, to stories for children to readable, historical works for youth, many of his fifty books are now Canadian classics.
Born in 1920 and raised in the Yukon, Pierre Berton worked in Klondike mining camps during his university years. He spent four years in the army, rising from private to captain/instructor at the Royal Military College in Kingston. He spent his early newspaper career in Vancouver, where at 21 he was the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily. He wrote columns for and was editor of…
Smug Minority
Pierre Berton
Why We Act Like Canadians
Pierre Berton
Pierre Berton's War of 1812
Pierre Berton
Flames Across the Border
Pierre Berton
The Invasion of Canada
Pierre Berton
Cats I Have Known and Loved
Pierre Berton
The Wild Frontier
Pierre Berton
Prisoners of the North
Pierre Berton
The Joy of Writing
Pierre Berton
Marching as to War
Pierre Berton
My Country
Pierre Berton
Niagara
Pierre Berton
The Promised Land
Pierre Berton
Klondike
Pierre Berton
Dominion
Stephen R. Bown
A Nation's Paper
Edited by John Ibbitson
The Class
Ken Dryden
The Good Allies
Tim Cook
Lytton
Peter Edwards and Kevin Loring
The North Star
Julian Sher
Rogers v. Rogers
Alexandra Posadzki
The Duel
John Ibbitson
Kinauvit?
Norma Dunning
True North Rising
Whit Fraser
Above the Fold
John Honderich
The Series
Ken Dryden
The Devil's Trick
John Boyko
The Company
Stephen R. Bown