by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Historical
Chester Russell tells the amazing story of how he—and 14,000 other soldiers just like him—ended up working under god-awful conditions in the wilds of western Canada and Alaska to build the Alaska Highway and the CANOL project during the early years of WW II....
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Historical
Martha was an independent 32-year old when she headed for the Klondike in 1898. She endured the grueling Chilkoot Trail, traveled by boat down the Yukon River, and worked placer gold claims while living in a crude log cabin. She went on to become a successful...
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...
