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Author:

Castner, Brian.

Title:

Stampede [large print] : gold fever and disaster in the Klondike [Large print] (LP) / Brian Castner.

Format:

[large print] :

Edition:

Center Point Large Print edition.

Publisher:

Center Point Large Print

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

359 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Large type books.
Frontier and pioneer life--Klondike River Valley.--Klondike River Valley.
Gold mines and mining--Klondike River Valley--Klondike River Valley--History--19th century.
Pioneers--Klondike River Valley.--Klondike River Valley.
Gold miners--Klondike River Valley--Klondike River Valley--History--19th century.
Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries.

Notes:

Regular print version previously published by: Doubleday. This book was purchased with funds donated by the Glenwood Lions Club.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1643589326
9781643589329

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1243263418

LCCN:

2021932357

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

XSPE157 -- Atlantic Public Library (Atlantic)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

XHPD657 -- Glenwood Public Library (Glenwood)

EYPC755 -- Kingsley Public Library (Kingsley)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

TVPD862 -- Louise & Lucile Hink -Tama Public Library (Tama)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)