by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Historical
In 1907, Laura Beatrice Berton, a 29-year-old kindergarten teacher, left her comfortable life in Toronto to teach in a Yukon mining town. She fell in love with the North – and with a northerner-and made Dawson City her home for the next 25 years. I Married the...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Historical
“Good Time Girls is an important and entertaining addition to gold rush literature. These women are as important a part of the Klondike story as Big Alex and Swiftwater Bill. After all, they too were gold diggers.” -Pierre Berton, author of Klondike...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Historical
Pierre Berton’s riveting account reveals to us the spectacle of the Chilkoot Pass , and the terrors of lesser-known trails through the swamps of British Columbia, across the glaciers of southern Alaska, and up the icy streams of the Mackenzie Mountains. It...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Historical
The most photographed event in North America during the 19th century. More than 10,000 images reside in public archives and private collections, depicting every aspect of what popular historian Pierre Berton has called “one of the strangest mass movements in...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Children's, Photo, Poetry
In 1986 Kids Can Press published an edition of Robert Service’s “The Cremation of Sam McGee” illustrated by painter Ted Harrison, who used his signature broad brushstrokes and unconventional choice of color to bring this gritty narrative poem to life. Evoking both the...
