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Klondike Fever:

The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush
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Basic Books, Dec 16, 2003 - History - 457 pages
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 gold fields in the Klondike Valley, most of them in total ignorance of the long, harsh Alaskan winters and the territory's indomitable terrain. Less than a third of that number would complete the enormously arduous mountain journey to their destination. Some would strike gold. Berton's story belongs less to the few who would make their fortunes than to the many swept up in the gold mania, to often unfortunate effects and tragic ends. It is a story of cold skies and avalanches, of con men and gamblers and dance hall girls, of sunken ships, of suicides, of dead horses and desperate men, of grizzly old miners and millionaires, of the land — its exploitation and revenge. It is a story of the human capacity to dream, and to endure.
  

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User Review  - Beth Cato - Goodreads

I bought this book so I could read up on Alaskan history before our cruise this summer, and I was worried I made a poor choice. Klondike Fever is a brick of a book at about 450 pages. If it was in ... Read full review

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Very good storytelling from someone who was born in the Klondike. Read full review

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Contents

PRELUDE
3
CHAPTER ONE
34
CHAPTER TWO
65
CHAPTER THREE
96
CHAPTER FOUR
146
CHAPTER FIVE
171
CHAPTER SIX
201
CHAPTER SEVEN
244
CHAPTER NINE
288
CHAPTER TEN
333
CHAPTER ELEVEN
366
CODA
417
A NOTE ON SOURCES
439
BIBLIOGRAPHY
446
INDEX
i
Copyright

CHAPTER EIGHT
268

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About the author (2003)

Pierre Berton -- formerly an editor of Maclean's magazine, a columnist for the Toronto Star, and host on television of The Pierre Berton Show -- is a playwright and the award-winning Canadian author of more than three dozen titles, including Farewell to the Twentieth Century and My Times: Living with History 1917-1995. He lives in Ontario

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TitleKlondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush
AuthorPierre Berton
Edition2, reprint
PublisherBasic Books, 2003
ISBN0786713178, 9780786713172
Length457 pages
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