The Klondike Stampede
Written by Tappan Adney
Narrated by Eric Jason Martin
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
When news of the discovery arrived in Seattle and San Francisco the following year it triggered one of the largest gold rushes in the history of North America.
Tappan Adney, a young writer and photographer who worked for Harper's Weekly, set out on a journey to uncover and record what it was like in the Klondike stampede.
This book is a fascinating portrayal of adventurers and prospectors who descended on the Yukon during this extraordinary event in the late nineteenth century.
Adney explains in vivid detail the treacherous route that these gold-hunters were forced to make in order to make it to the Yukon. The White and Chilkoot Passes were fatal for many who attempted to get through them with poor equipment.
He stayed in Dawson, where the gold rush was centered, from October 2nd through to September 16th the following year. While there he interviewed men and women who hoped to make their fortune, observed the community that had seemingly sprung up overnight and records in detail how the prospectors searched for gold.
Tappan Adney
Tappan Adney, born in 1868 in Athens, Ohio, was an artist, a writer, and a photographer. He was credited with saving the art of birchbark canoe construction and built more than 100 models of different types. During World War I, he was an engineering officer for the Royal Military College. His book about the Klondike Gold Rush has become a well-loved standard. He worked in Montreal as a consultant on aboriginal lore, then retired to Woodstock, New Brunswick, where his wife, Minnie Bell Sharp, had been born. He died in 1950.
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Reviews for The Klondike Stampede
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If you have any interest in the gold rush to the Yukon in the 1890s then this is a great book to read. It was written by a newspaper man sent to document the Klondike stampede and he has a definite journalistic bent. It is full of interesting anecdotes and lots of hard facts, including lots of data on the amount of gold discovered and its value. If you want to read some history from someone who was there, this is a great choice, and since it is in the public domain, free copies are readily available at Google Books and elsewhere.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5"A life of freedom and adventure has a fascination which grows rather than diminishes...." The best book I've read on the 'Stampede'. It did a good job of reminding me what it was like when I went across the Chilkoot Trail.