THE NATURE OF GOLD: AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH. Kathryn Morse. 2003. Seattle: University of Washington Press. xviii + 290 p, illustrated, hard cover. IBSN 0-295-98329-9. US$29.95doi:10.1017/S0032247404253773F. Duerden...
How much gold was found in the Klondike Gold Rush? At its prime, the Klondike region mined more than two million metric tons of gold in a year. The region had deposits of gold bigger than those of the mine in South Africa. It produced gold worth more than twenty million dollars in 19...
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Keish (Skookum Jim) was among the group that discovered gold, triggering the Klondike Gold Rush. News of the strike spread through the Yukon like wildfire. Rabbit Creek was soon renamed “Bonanza Creek,” and by the end of the month, local miners had staked out gold claims along its entir...
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Skagway Photo by Reywas92 on Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 This isn’t a single park, as such, but a vast area of 13,191 acres that includes six blocks of historical Skagway, the most famous Alaskan Gold Rush town, the ghost...
Jack London sails for the Klondike gold rush On July 25, 1897, 21-year-old Jack London leaves for the Klondike region of far-northern Canada to join the gold rush, where he will write his first successful stories. London was born in San Francisco in 1876. His father, an astrologer named...
The “Aristocrats” of San Francisco N OWHERE WAS J EWISH integration more extensive than in that quintessential Western boom city, San Francisco. Among the fortune-seekers making their way to central California in the Gold Rush of 1849 were perhaps three hundred Jews. A number of them made...
副标题:Russian Colonization of the Americas, Steamboats of the Yukon River, Klondike Gold Rush, Russian-American Telegraph 出版年:2011-8 页数:30 定价:$ 15.98 装帧:平装 ISBN:9781156692912 豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 ...
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When the Klondike Gold Rush hit, Canada had trouble maintaining the exercising government authority over the border between Alaska (U.S) and Canada. The North-West Mounted Police set up control posts armed with guns to monitor the borders and enforce the strict rules for entry into the area....