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 20, 2011 | Books, Historical
A witty, brightly-written memoir of childhood in the Yukon, The Cinnamon Mine traces the adventures of the Porsild family from Denmark to Greenland, through Arctic Canada, and finally to remote Johnson’s Crossing , where they operated one of the first tourist...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 18, 2011 | Books, Historical
A Yukon historian delves into the area’s exciting past to bring old stories to life. Conspiracies to overthrow the Yukon; terrorism in the Klondike; a bigamist Klondike Casanova; gunfights and how the Mounties got their man; Robert Service’s secret love life; the...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 18, 2011 | Books, Historical, Poetry
From the Cremation of Sam McGee to The Ordinary Man – you’ll find all your Service favourites!Synonymous with adventure and the rugged beauty of the Canadian North, Robert Service remains one of Canada’s best known and most loved poets. As the poet...
