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Pierre Berton is among my three favorite history writers. He lacks the meticulous scholarship of Barbara Tuchman and the gravitas of David McCullough, but Pierre Berton surely knows how to tell a good story. The Klondike Fever is an amazing tale of bravery, perseverance, loyalty, averice, betrayal, greed, and above all folly.
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Dec 17, 2003 · The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush. Paperback – December 17, 2003. In 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion the incredible succession of events that Pierre Berton's exhilarating The Klondike Fever chronicles in all its splendid and astonishing folly.
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- Basic Books
- $13.99
- Pierre Berton
Aug 25, 2010 · 2010 Reprint of 1958 edition. This thrilling story of the Klondike Gold Rush is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Some of the anecdotes of the last great gold rush have been told by others, but Pierre Berton is the first to distill the Klondike experience into a single, complete, coherent and immensely dramatic narrative.
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- 1958
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- Pierre Berton
Born in 1920 and raised in the Yukon, Pierre Berton worked in Klondike mining camps during his university years. He spent four years in the army, rising from private to captain/instructor at the Royal Military College in Kingston. He spent his early newspaper career in Vancouver, where at 21 he was the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily.
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- Pierre Berton
Nov 6, 2015 · Books. The Klondike Fever: The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush. Pierre Berton. Pickle Partners Publishing, Nov 6, 2015 - History - 407 pages. “Absolutely first-rate.”—The New Yorker This thrilling story is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Incredible events occurred in North America after a decrepit ...
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- Pierre Berton
- Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015
Prisoners of the North is Pierre Berton 's fiftieth book. These include Klondike Fever, also available from Carroll & Graf; the New York Times bestseller, The Arctic Grail; Niagara; The Invasion of Canada; and Flames Across the Border. He received three Governor General's awards for non-fiction, two National Newspaper Awards, the Stephen ...
- Kindle Edition
- Pierre Berton
Dec 23, 2021 · Internet Archive Audio. ... The Klondike fever : the life and death of the last great gold rush ... Berton, Pierre, 1920-2004. Publication date 2003
