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Gold at Fortymile Creek : early days in the Yukon

Author: Michael Gates
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©1994.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Gates
ISBN: 0774804688 9780774804684 0774804920 9780774804929
OCLC Number: 30069250
Description: xv, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Early Days: The First Gold-Seekers Arrive --
2. The Chilkoot Pass and Early Transportation --
3. Early Developments on the Yukon River --
4. The Miners' Code --
5. The Fortymile Stampede --
6. Strangers in a Strange Land --
7. Years of Change --
8. Forty Mile: Anatomy of a Gold Rush Town --
9. The Arrival of the North-West Mounted Police --
10. Death of the Miners' Committee --
11. Circle: The Largest Log City in the World --
12. The Discovery of Gold in the Klondike --
13. Epilogue --
App. A: Mining Methods and Terms --
App. B: Roll Call: Names of the Early Yukon Pioneers.
Responsibility: Michael Gates.

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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.

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