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Robert D. Turner The Klondike Gold Rush Steamers (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Klondike Gold Rush Steamers : a History of Yukon River Steam Navigation
- Publication Name
- The Klondike Gold Rush Steamers
- Title
- The Klondike Gold Rush Steamers
- Subtitle
- A History of Yukon River Steam Navigation
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9781550178876
- ISBN
- 9781550178876
- Publisher
- Harbour Publishing Company, The Limited
- Genre
- Transportation, History
- Topic
- Navigation, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-), Ships & Shipbuilding / General, Ships & Shipbuilding / Pictorial
- Release Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- 07/05/2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- CA
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Item Width
- 11in
- Item Weight
- 67.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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The great Klondike Gold Rush began in 1896 and within two years, thousands of prospectors, speculators and people from countless walks of life descended on the Klondike from far and wide, seeking their fortunes. Sternwheeled steamboats were essential modes of transportation for many of those who made the onerous journey in search of riches and adventure. Some miners came by steamer all the way up the Yukon River through Alaska from St. Michael. Others climbed the famed Chilkoot Pass or White Pass to the headwaters of the Yukon and took a steamer downstream to the Klondike. From Dawson City and the Klondike in the Yukon, then on to Nome and Fairbanks in Alaska, the gold rush stampede came and--almost as quickly--faded away. Skilled officers and crews made these robust frontier boats the lifeblood of the Klondike and Alaskan gold rushes. Over 250 steamboats ran on the Yukon River and its tributaries. After the rushes, most were part of the fleets of the White Pass & Yukon Route or the Alaska Railroad and they carried hundreds of tourists and many tons of wartime supplies. The last ones were retired in the mid-1950s. Many were wrecked, while others were simply abandoned and left to rot away. Only the Klondike, Keno and Nenana have been preserved as reminders of those exciting and legendary times. This book tells the dramatic story of these amazing steamboats, the people who built and ran them and the services they provided to a vast, lonely, sometimes frenzied and always challenging frontier. Based on countless hours of field and archival research and packed with over six hundred outstanding photographs, this book presents the fascinating history of the Yukon River's steamers from the pioneer days of the fur trade to the 1950s.
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Publisher
Harbour Publishing Company, The Limited
ISBN-10
1550178873
ISBN-13
9781550178876
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038764756
Product Key Features
Book Title
Klondike Gold Rush Steamers : a History of Yukon River Steam Navigation
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Navigation, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-), Ships & Shipbuilding / General, Ships & Shipbuilding / Pictorial
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Transportation, History
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
11in
Item Weight
67.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
He635.Z7y857 2019
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Robert Turner, in my view the best maritime historian in the country, has provided the Yukon and all of Canada with a remarkable memorial of its river-centred history in The Klondike Gold Rush Steamers: A History of Yukon River Steam Navigation . This extensively illustrated and beautifully presented volume provides an extended narrative history of the history of steamers in the Far Northwest...It is one of the finest, most thorough, and most comprehensive books ever written on riverboats in Canada. Scholars of regional transportation are indebted to Robert Turner for this exceptional and detailed work.
Lccn
2021-301446
Dewey Decimal
386/.22436
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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