{"product_id":"2940012265449","title":"THE GREAT GOLD RUSH","description":"PREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a freemasonry among Klondikers which rules that no tales shall\u003cbr\u003ebe told out of school. If, therefore, this were an historical novel, if\u003cbr\u003eI were telling tales and seeking to escape censure by the subterfuge of\u003cbr\u003echanging names, I could hardly succeed. Let me take the case of Poo-Bah,\u003cbr\u003efor instance. The reader with a knowledge of the early days of Dawson\u003cbr\u003eaccepting the story as historical, would fix as the original any one of\u003cbr\u003ehalf a dozen men indecently caricatured. But if he is told the character\u003cbr\u003eis a composite one, that it is the personification of Dawson graft, or,\u003cbr\u003ein other words, that it is the sum of a merger, he will understand and,\u003cbr\u003eI think, make no complaint.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOtherwise the story may be accepted as the author's best effort to\u003cbr\u003econvey a true account of the different phases of the world's most\u003cbr\u003eremarkable stampede. The stories of corruption among the officials in\u003cbr\u003eDawson are those which a visitor would have heard on every hand, and at\u003cbr\u003ethe present time there are many old-timers in the Yukon who will tell\u003cbr\u003etales similar to the incidents I have introduced in my story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen one of my characters speaks of the Dawson officials as petty\u003cbr\u003elarceny thieves and highway robbers, it is to be understood to be a\u003cbr\u003esample of the phraseology in vogue at the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe different types of prospector I have attempted to portray are those\u003cbr\u003eI have met, lived with, and mixed with. Should it appear I have given\u003cbr\u003etoo much space to the humble economies of the miner's life, I shall\u003cbr\u003eadvance as my excuse the lack of our literature in this particular.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have also made a humble attempt to establish the respectability of the\u003cbr\u003eminer. So much has been written to compromise him, and so many\u003cbr\u003eimaginations have drawn lurid pictures of his morals, I feel it his due.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a general way the reader may accept anything in my story which has\u003cbr\u003enone other than an historical interest as being accurate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am indebted to the Rev. Archdeacon Macdonald, now of Winnipeg, for the\u003cbr\u003estory of his first discovery of gold. For the story of the discovery of\u003cbr\u003eFranklin Gulch I am indebted to Mr. William Hartz, who also furnished\u003cbr\u003ethe accounts of the finding of gold in the Stewart River. These accounts\u003cbr\u003ehave never before been written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                             W. H. P. J.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTORONTO, CANADA.\u003cbr\u003e  _January_ 1913.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                  CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER                            PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        I. THE FORTUNE-SEEKERS.         1\u003cbr\u003e       II. JOHN BERWICK                11\u003cbr\u003e      III. THE BEGINNING OF YUKON      21\u003cbr\u003e       IV. SOCIETY IN ALASKA           30\u003cbr\u003e        V. SOAPY'S LITTLE GAME         38\u003cbr\u003e       VI. HITTING THE TRAIL           48\u003cbr\u003e      VII. HUGH'S PHILOSOPHY           62\u003cbr\u003e     VIII. OVER THE SUMMIT             71\u003cbr\u003e       IX. STORM AND STRESS            80\u003cbr\u003e        X. AN EMPIRE'S OUTPOST         90\u003cbr\u003e       XI. ANOTHER PASS                95\u003cbr\u003e      XII. A NEW PARTNER              107\u003cbr\u003e     XIII. THE DANCE                  115\u003cbr\u003e      XIV. A LONG SHOT                126\u003cbr\u003e       XV. REVELATION                 133\u003cbr\u003e      XVI. A STREAM OF HISTORY        137\u003cbr\u003e     XVII. DAWSON                     149\u003cbr\u003e    XVIII. POO-BAH!                   158\u003cbr\u003e      XIX. GRAFT                      170\u003cbr\u003e       XX. A LOTTERY                  182\u003cbr\u003e      XXI. THE PEELS' HOSPITAL        194\u003cbr\u003e     XXII. THE LAST STRAW             201\u003cbr\u003e    XXIII. REVOLUTION                 214\u003cbr\u003e     XXIV. WITHIN THE BARRACKS        223\u003cbr\u003e      XXV. RECRUITING                 230\u003cbr\u003e     XXVI. LOCATED                    236\u003cbr\u003e    XXVII. THE WOOD-PILE              244\u003cbr\u003e   XXVIII. A COUNCIL OF WAR           251\u003cbr\u003e     XXIX. STONY GROUND               257\u003cbr\u003e      XXX. ON THE SCENT               265\u003cbr\u003e     XXXI. AN ODIOUS DILEMMA          274\u003cbr\u003e    XXXII. A DERELICT                 280\u003cbr\u003e   XXXIII. TRIBUTE                    286\u003cbr\u003e    XXXIV. NO SURRENDER               294\u003cbr\u003e     XXXV. THE MAN WITH THE POUCH     299\u003cbr\u003e    XXXVI. AFTER THE CRISIS           307\u003cbr\u003e   XXXVII. OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS     313\u003cbr\u003e  XXXVIII. REUNION                    319\u003cbr\u003e    XXXIX. RETROSPECTION              325\u003cbr\u003e       XL. THE HAPPY ENDING           331","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179758895344,"sku":"2940012265449","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012265449_p0.jpg?v=1763554327","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012265449","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}