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43) Call of the wild
Publisher
Front Row Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
U.S. mail worker travels the deadly 600 miles from Skagway to Dawson, Alaska in the winter, aided by his beloved dog.
44) The Yukon
Author
Publisher
I. Washburn
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
A history of the two-thousand-mile-long river that was once the major path from Canada through Alaska to the Bering Sea. Describes the climate, cities, peoples, gold fever, and dog sled and steamboat travel along this waterway that exists today as a potential source of electric power or an unspoiled wildlife sanctuary.
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2004, ©1958
Language
English
Description
"In 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion the incredible succession of events that Pierre Berton's exhilarating The Klondike Fever chronicles in all its splendid and astonishing folly. For the steamer Portland bore two tons of pure Klondike gold. And immediately, the stampede north to Alaska began. Easily as many as 100,000 adventurers, dreamers, and would-be miners from all over the world struck out for the remote, isolated...
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A magnificent Alaskan dog who leads his team to victory in the National Open Sled Dog Race, Kavik is bought by wealthy, unscrupulous businessman George Hunter, but his plane crashes en route to Seattle. Twelve-year-old Andy finds the badly wounded Kavik in the woods, nurses him back to health when no one believes he will survive, and loves the once proud dog, who is left fearful and cowardly by the accident. Hearing of Kavik's amazing recovery, Hunter...
49) First light
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Set amid the deep, wild woods of the Yukon, "First Light" tells the story of Daniel Albrecht and Kerry Egan, a young couple just beginning their life together- in love, engaged, and, as Kerry soon discovers, expecting their first child. While they are flying home from a work trip in Alaska to plan their wedding back home in Chicago, both engines of their plane catch fire and send the plane careening into a mountainside in the middle of a terrible...
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An adapted version for young readers of the tale of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
52) White Fang
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
A young man tries to fulfill his father's dying wish to find gold in the treacherous Yukon valley. His incredible journey begins when he meets a veteran gold miner who guides young Jack to his father's claim. Along the way, Jack discovers a kindred spirit who will change his life forever--a magnificent wolf-dog named White Fang. From the taming of a wolf, to the taming of the wild, he must find the courage to conquer his fears and become a man.
53) Call of the wild
Publisher
TGG Direct, LLC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Jack London's classic story of two men driven by gold fever, battling the elements in the frozen Klondike.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Firefly Books
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
The Klondike Quest brings to life the panoramic drama of the great stampede for gold as seen by the ordinary gold-seeker. The photographs are beautifully reproduced and informatively and colorfully captioned. "One million people, it is said, laid plans to go to the Klondike. One hundred thousand actually set off. And so the Klondike saga is a chronicle of humanity in the mass ... For the next eighteen months, the Yukon interior plateau became a human...
55) The far country
Series
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A solid western saga set against the colorful, scenic backdrop of Alaskan mining camps.
58) A tale of gold
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Orphaned fourteen-year-old James decides to join the "stampeders" heading to the Yukon gold rush, and along the way joins up with two unusual partners who share a common bond of wanting to strike it rich.
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