On the Periphery of the Klondike Gold Rush

On the Periphery of the Klondike Gold Rush
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Publisher : [Whitehorse] : Yukon Tourism, Heritage Branch
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433030769776
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Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis On the Periphery of the Klondike Gold Rush by : Thomas J. Hammer

Eldorado!

Eldorado!
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 9780803210998
ISBN-13 : 080321099X
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Eldorado! by : Catherine Holder Spude

When gold was discovered in the far northern regions of Alaska and the Yukon in the late nineteenth century, thousands of individuals headed north to strike it rich. This massive movement required a vast network of supplies and services and brought even more people north to manage and fulfill those needs. In this volume, archaeologists, historians, and ethnologists discuss their interlinking studies of the towns, trails, and mining districts that figured in the northern gold rushes, including the first sustained account of the archaeology of twentieth-century gold mining sites in Alaska or the Yukon. The authors explore various parts of this extensive settlement and supply system: coastal towns that funneled goods inland from ships; the famous Chilkoot Trail, over which tens of thousands of gold-seekers trod; a host of retail-oriented sites that supported prospectors and transferred goods through the system; and actual camps on the creeks where gold was extracted from the ground. Discussing individual cases in terms of settlement patterns and archaeological assemblages, the essays shed light on issues of interest to students of gender, transience, and site abandonment behavior. Further commentary places the archaeology of the Far North within the larger context of early twentieth-century industrialized European American society.

The Power of the Periphery

The Power of the Periphery
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9781108801492
ISBN-13 : 1108801498
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis The Power of the Periphery by : Peder Anker

What is the source of Norway's culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Peder Anker examines how they portrayed their country as a place of environmental stability in a world filled with tension. In contrast with societies dirtied by the hot and cold wars of the twentieth century, Norway's power, they argued, lay in the pristine, ideal natural environment of the periphery. Globally, a beautiful Norway came to be contrasted with a polluted world and fashioned as an ecological microcosm for the creation of a better global macrocosm. In this innovative, interdisciplinary history, Anker explores the ways in which ecological concerns were imported via Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962, then to be exported from Norway back to the world at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Geographically Isolated and Peripheral Music Scenes

Geographically Isolated and Peripheral Music Scenes
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 9789811645815
ISBN-13 : 9811645817
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Geographically Isolated and Peripheral Music Scenes by : Christina Ballico

This book explores the influence of geographical isolation and peripherality on the functioning of music industries and scenes which operate within and from such locales. As is explored, these sites engage dynamic practices to offset challenges resulting from geographical isolation and peripherality.

National Plots

National Plots
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Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9781554581610
ISBN-13 : 1554581613
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis National Plots by : Andrea Cabajsky

Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature. Works by writers of historical fiction (from early practitioners such as John Richardson to contemporary figures such as Alice Munro and George Elliott Clarke) propose new views and understandings of Canadian history and individual relationships to it. Critical evaluation of these works sheds light on the complexity of these depictions. The contributors in National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada critically examine texts with subject matter ranging from George Vancouver’s west coast explorations to the eradication of the Beothuk in Newfoundland. Reflecting diverse methodologies and theoretical approaches, the essays seek to explicate depictions of “the historical” in individual texts and to explore larger questions relating to historical fiction as a genre with complex and divergent political motivations and goals. Although the topics of the essays vary widely, as a whole the collection raises (and answers) questions about the significance of the roles historical fiction has played within Canadian culture for nearly two centuries.

Klondike Gold Rush

Klondike Gold Rush
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Publisher : New York : Pageant Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822043018647
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Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Klondike Gold Rush by : Richard C. Anzer

The author arrived in Skagway, Alaska, in July 1898, a few days after Soapy Smith had been killed. Among other activities, he was timekeeper for 600 construction workers for White Pass and Yukon.

The Nature of Gold

The Nature of Gold
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 9780295989877
ISBN-13 : 0295989874
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nature of Gold by : Kathryn Morse

In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging setting. Ever since that time, the Klondike Gold Rush - especially as portrayed in photographs of long lines of gold seekers marching up Chilkoot Pass - has had a hold on the popular imagination. In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska, and explores the ways in which a web of connections among America’s transportation, supply, and marketing industries linked miners to other industrial and agricultural laborers across the country. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times. The story Morse tells is often narrated through the diaries and letters of the miners themselves. The daunting challenges of traveling, working, and surviving in the raw wilderness are illustrated not only by the miners’ compelling accounts but by newspaper reports and advertisements. Seattle played a key role as “gateway to the Klondike.” A public relations campaign lured potential miners to the West and local businesses seized the opportunity to make large profits while thousands of gold seekers streamed through Seattle. The drama of the miners’ journeys north, their trials along the gold creeks, and their encounters with an extreme climate will appeal not only to scholars of the western environment and of late-19th-century industrialism, but to readers interested in reliving the vivid adventure of the West’s last great gold rush.

Best Left as Indians

Best Left as Indians
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 379
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ISBN-10 : 9780773562615
ISBN-13 : 0773562613
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Best Left as Indians by : Ken Coates

The indigenous population, Coates stresses, has not been passive in the face of expansion by whites. He argues that Native people have played a major role in shaping the history of the region and determining the relationship with the immigrant population. They recognized the conflict between the material and technological advantages of an imposed economic order and the desire to maintain a harvesting existence. While they readily accepted technological innovations, they resisted the imposition of an industrial, urban environment. Contemporary land claims show their long-standing attachment to the land and demonstrate a continued, assertive response to non-Native intervention.

An Alaska Anthology

An Alaska Anthology
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 479
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ISBN-10 : 9780295800370
ISBN-13 : 0295800372
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis An Alaska Anthology by : Stephen W. Haycox

Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples’ formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the North’s isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent achievement of statehood, has long captured the popular imagination. In An Alaska Anthology, twenty-five contemporary scholars explore the region’s pivotal events, significant themes, and major players, Native, Russian, Canadian, and American. The essays chosen for this anthology represent the very best writing on Alaska, giving great depth to our understanding and appreciation of its history from the days of Russian-American Company domination to the more recent threat of nuclear testing by the Atomic Energy Commission and the influence of oil money on inexperienced politicians. Readers may be familiar with an earlier anthology, Interpreting Alaska’s History, from which the present volume evolved to accommodate an explosion of research in the past decade. While a number of the original pieces were found to be irreplaceable, more than half of the essays are new. The result is a fresh perspective on the subject and an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and scholars.