Stampede : gold fever and disaster in the Klondike
(Large Print)
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Published
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Lang Memorial Library - LARGE PRINT | LP Fic Castner, Brian | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life -- Yukon -- Klondike River Valley.
Gold miners -- Yukon -- Klondike River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
Gold mines and mining -- Yukon -- Klondike River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries.
Large type books.
Pioneers -- Yukon -- Klondike River Valley.
Gold miners -- Yukon -- Klondike River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
Gold mines and mining -- Yukon -- Klondike River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries.
Large type books.
Pioneers -- Yukon -- Klondike River Valley.
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Published
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2021.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Regular print version previously published by: Doubleday.
Description
"In 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities in the Klondike River region of the Yukon, a mob of economically desperate Americans swarmed north. 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: avalanches, shipwrecks, starvation, murder. Upon this stage, author Brian Castner tells a relentlessly driving story of the gold rush through the individual experiences of the iconic characters who endured it. A young Jack London, who would make his fortune but not in gold. Colonel Samuel Steele, who tried to save the stampeders from themselves. The notorious gangster Soapy Smith, goodtime girls and desperate miners, Skookum Jim, and the hotel entrepreneur Belinda Mulrooney. The unvarnished tale of this mass migration is always striking, revealing the amazing truth of what people will do for a chance to be rich."--
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Castner, B. (2021). Stampede: gold fever and disaster in the Klondike (Center Point Large Print edition.). Center Point Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Castner, Brian. 2021. Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike. Center Point Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Castner, Brian. Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike Center Point Large Print, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Castner, Brian. Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike Center Point Large Print edition., Center Point Large Print, 2021.
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