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Alaska Description and travel California Gold discoveries Frontier and pioneer life Yukon Klondike River Valley Gold mines and mining Yukon Klondike River Valley History 19th century Klondike River Valley (Yukon) Gold discoveries Mushers Alaska Fairbanks Sled dog racing Alaska Women pioneers Yukon Klondike River Valley History Yukon Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska) Description and travelSummary: "This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAWPauls, Cole
Summary: "Cole Pauls returns with Kwändǖr, a short story collection of Southern Tutchone and Yukon tales. Gathering Pauls's comics from magazines, comic festivals and zine making workshops, these comics are Pauls's most personal work yet. You'll learn stories about the author's family, racism and identity, Yukon history, winter activities, Southern Tutchone language lessons and cultural practices. Have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conundrum Press 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 PAUBlum, Howard.
Summary: Set in the last decade of the nineteenth century, this true tale of the last frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush describes a mystery surrounding the disappearance of gold bars stolen from the Treadmill Mine in Juneau, Alaska. Without clues, it appears the crime may never be solved, but Charlie Siringo of the Pinkerton Agency sets out on a rugged cross-country odyssey to catch the thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BLUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US BlumDeGraf, Anna
Summary: Anna DeGraf, an independent pioneer, recounts her twenty-five years of adventure in Alaska and the Yukon Territory before, during, and after the Gold Rush.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archon Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEGRAF, ANNA DEGGray, Charlotte
Contents: Color and chaos. Arctic secrets, June 1896 -- Bill Haskell's dreams of gold, 1890-1896 -- Mob justice and wild dogs, June-November, 1896 -- "Five dollars to the pan!" October 1896-April 1897 -- Sourdough success, April-June 1897 -- Mining the miners. Father Judge's flock, May-June 1897 -- Belinda Mulrooney stakes her claim, June 1897 -- Jack London catches Klondicitis, July-October 1897 --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.9 GRAO'Neill, Dan (Daniel T.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.986 ONEService, Robert W. (Robert William)
Contents: L'Envoi (1907) -- To the man of the high north -- Men that don't fit in -- Rhyme of the restless ones -- Younger son -- Three voices -- Call of the wild -- Song of the mouth-organ -- Trail of ninety-eight -- Land God forgot -- Ballad of the northern lights -- Comfort -- Ballad of Gum-Boot Ben -- Low-down white -- Man from Eldorado -- Reckoning -- Shooting of Dan McGrew -- Harpy -- Ballad of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 811.52 SERCastner, Brian
Summary: "A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.9 CASHildebrand, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.986 HILMeissner, David
Summary: Traces the true story of prospectors Stanley Pearce and Marshall Bond, who joined thousands of men along the dangerous Chilkoot and White Passes to seek their fortunes in the gold fields of Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Pr 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 971.91 MEISummary: This annually updated travel guide to Alaska and Northwest Canada is a must-have resource for travelers to these areas. "The Milepost" provides maps, diagrams, photographs, and an almost mile-by-mile travelogue of what to expect along the main roads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morris Communications Company, LLC 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Relive the gold rush era aboard the restored parlor cars of the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad. From Skagway, one of the best preserved Alaskan frontier cities and home to the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, journey along the mountainous path used by stampeders in the late 1800's to the White Pass Summit and on to Lake Bennett. Discover abandoned gold rush sites and fascinating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GoodTimes Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 ALAGoldsworthy, Kaite
Summary: Describes the history, geography and culture of the Yukon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weigl 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 971 GOLService, Robert W.
Summary: Constantly suffering from the cold, Sam makes his companion on the Arctic trail promise to cremate him when he dies, which the companion does--to his great surprise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 SERMurphy, Claire Rudolf.
Summary: Contains profiles and photographs of twenty-three women who sought their fortunes in the Yukon and Alaska during the gold rush age of the late ninteenth and early twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.91 MURBackhouse, Frances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whitecap Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.91 BACBerton, Pierre
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 971.91 BERNorth, Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.92 NORSummary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002
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London, Jack
Summary: Raised as a domesticated dog on a ranch in southern California, Buck is stolen from his home and sold into the brutal existance of an Alaskan sled dog. Forced to survive with a tooth and claw existence being the only law with other dogs. He must adjust and master his new life in the wild by reveting to ancesteral instincts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Classics Made Easy 2022
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Summary: Describes the lure of gold that drew both men and women west and discusses how they lived, the difficulties they faced, the impact of the gold rush on Native Americans, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338.2741 KALWalker, Joyce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark 1871
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 979.8 WALSummary: Traveler Ian Wright's journey across Canada, the second largest country in the world begins in the French speaking city of Montreal. A trip north to Yellowknife and on to Baffin Island to visit the Inuit people, then Ian goes on a hunt for polar bears on Broughton Island. Zay Harding explores Western Canada from the province of Saskatchewan to Edmonton, in Alberta. A trip to the Calgary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Escapi Media 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.104 CANBrown, Dolores Cline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfe Pub. Co. 1992