{"product_id":"2940013830608","title":"The Great Gold Rush (A Tale of The Klondike) [With ATOC]","description":"Preface:\u003cbr\u003eThere is a freemasonry among Klondikers which rules that no tales shall be told out of school. If, therefore, this were an historical novel, if I were telling tales and seeking to escape censure by the subterfuge of changing names, I could hardly succeed. Let me take the case of Poo-Bah, for instance. The reader with a knowledge of the early days of Dawson accepting the story as historical, would fix as the original any one of half a dozen men indecently caricatured. But if he is told the character is a composite one, that it is the personification of Dawson graft, or, in other words, that it is the sum of a merger, he will understand and, I think, make no complaint.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOtherwise the story may be accepted as the author's best effort to convey a true account of the different phases of the world's most remarkable stampede. The stories of corruption among the officials in Dawson are those which a visitor would have heard on every hand, and at the present time there are many old-timers in the Yukon who will tell tales 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 larceny thieves and highway robbers, it is to be understood to be a sample of the phraseology in vogue at the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe different types of prospector I have attempted to portray are those I have met, lived with, and mixed with. Should it appear I have given too much space to the humble economies of the miner's life, I shall advance 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 miner. So much has been written to compromise him, and so many imaginations 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 none other than an historical interest as being accurate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am indebted to the Rev. Archdeacon Macdonald, now of Winnipeg, for the story of his first discovery of gold. For the story of the discovery of Franklin Gulch I am indebted to Mr. William Hartz, who also furnished the accounts of the finding of gold in the Stewart River. These accounts have never before been written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW. H. P. J.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToronto, Canada.\u003cbr\u003eJanuary 1913.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI THE FORTUNE-SEEKERS.. \u003cbr\u003eII JOHN BERWICK. \u003cbr\u003eIII THE BEGINNING OF YUKON. \u003cbr\u003eIV SOCIETY IN ALASKA. \u003cbr\u003eV SOAPY'S LITTLE GAME. \u003cbr\u003eVI HITTING THE TRAIL. \u003cbr\u003eVII HUGH'S PHILOSOPHY. \u003cbr\u003eVIII OVER THE SUMMIT. \u003cbr\u003eIX STORM AND STRESS. \u003cbr\u003eX AN EMPIRE'S OUTPOST. \u003cbr\u003eXI ANOTHER PASS. \u003cbr\u003eXII A NEW PARTNER. \u003cbr\u003eXIII THE DANCE. \u003cbr\u003eXIV A LONG SHOT. \u003cbr\u003eXV REVELATION. \u003cbr\u003eXVI A STREAM OF HISTORY. \u003cbr\u003eXVII DAWSON. \u003cbr\u003eXVIII POO-BAH!. \u003cbr\u003eXIX GRAFT. \u003cbr\u003eXX A LOTTERY. \u003cbr\u003eXXI THE PEELS' HOSPITAL. \u003cbr\u003eXXII THE LAST STRAW. \u003cbr\u003eXXIII REVOLUTION. \u003cbr\u003eXXIV WITHIN THE BARRACKS. \u003cbr\u003eXXV RECRUITING. \u003cbr\u003eXXVI LOCATED. \u003cbr\u003eXXVII THE WOOD-PILE. \u003cbr\u003eXXVIII A COUNCIL OF WAR. \u003cbr\u003eXXIX STONY GROUND. \u003cbr\u003eXXX ON THE SCENT. \u003cbr\u003eXXXI AN ODIOUS DILEMMA. \u003cbr\u003eXXXII A DERELICT. \u003cbr\u003eXXXIII TRIBUTE. \u003cbr\u003eXXXIV NO SURRENDER. \u003cbr\u003eXXXV THE MAN WITH THE POUCH. \u003cbr\u003eXXXVI AFTER THE CRISIS. \u003cbr\u003eXXXVII OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS. \u003cbr\u003eXXXVIII REUNION. \u003cbr\u003eXXXIX RETROSPECTION. \u003cbr\u003eXL THE HAPPY ENDING.","brand":"Ladislav Deczi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145982853360,"sku":"2940013830608","price":3.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013830608_p0.jpg?v=1763595266","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013830608","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}