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Klondike gold rush steamers : a history of Yukon River steam navigation / Robert D. Turner.
- Title
- Klondike gold rush steamers : a history of Yukon River steam navigation / Robert D. Turner.
- Author
- Turner, Robert D.
- Publication
- Winlaw, BC : Sono Nis Press, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HE635 Z7 Y94 2015 | Off-site |
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- Friesens Corporation, printer, binder.
- Description
- 352 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits, facsimilies (some colour); 24 x 29 cm
- Summary
- "During the Klondike Gold Rush, sternwheeled steamboats were the key mode of transportation. This book tells the dramatic story of these amazing boats, the people who built and ran them, and the services they gave to a vast, lonely, frenzied, challenging frontier. Like Turner's 17 other books of transportation history, it combines meticulously researched text with stunning photographs, here over 500 (including rare colour images)"--
- Subject
- Paddle steamers > Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska) > History
- Paddle steamers > Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska) > History > Pictorial works
- Steam-navigation > Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska) > History
- Steam-navigation > Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska) > History > Pictorial works
- Gold mines and mining
- Navigation
- Paddle steamers
- Steam-navigation
- Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska) > History
- Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska) > History > Pictorial works
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Gold discoveries
- North America > Yukon River
- Yukon > Klondike River Valley
- Genre/Form
- History
- Pictorial works
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: pages 338-341.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Early steamers on the lower Yukon River : trappers, traders & prospectors -- Routes to the Klondike & building the Yukon River steamers -- The steamer armada reaches Dawson & the Klondike, 1898-1900 -- The White Pass & Yukon Route's British Yukon Navigation Company & the formation of the Northern Navigation Company -- Steamers and the river of gold to the 1920s : the rush to Fairbanks -- The Yukon River steamers in the 1920s & the Alaska railroad -- The last Yukon steamboat days : depression, wartime & finale.
- ISBN
- 9781550392425 (bound)
- 1550392425 (bound)
- OCLC
- 1002895325
- SCSB-10650801
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library