The Klondike's "dear Little Nugget"

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TouchWood Editions, 1996 - History - 151 pages

The Nugget was a feisty little newspaper in Dawson City, and the excerpts collected here provide vivid glimpses of what life was really like at the height of the gold rush.

 

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Contents

The Gold Rush Begins
1
The Early Editions
17
Stroller White
32
In the Fall of 1898
59
Christmas 1898
73
Saloons
81
66
88
Big Alex
94
In the Spring of the Year
103
Charlie Meadows
109
From Kittens to Mittens
116
Christmas Bazaar
123
Boom to Bust
144
Endnotes
151
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

Advertisement Alaska American Arthur Boyle became Big Alex Bill Gates boat boxes brought building Canadian cents Charlie church claims consul creeks crowd dance halls dancehall Dawson City Deadwood Dear Little Nugget Dizzard dogs dollar door drinks Eldorado entertain fire friends gambling Gene Allen gold dust gold rush headlines Hickman July June KLONDIKE NUGGET KLONDIKE NUGGET Court KLONDIKE NUGGET September Klondike's ladies Lake Bennett Little Margie living lots loved Margie McCook miles miners mining Monte Carlo Mounties move Myrtle newspaper night Nome Northwest Northwest Mounted Police November NUGGET Editorial Nugget reported Nugget told paper police prospectors reached Dawson readers route Russell Bankson saloon Seattle Skagway song sourdoughs stakes stampede story Stroller Swiftwater Bill theatre took town trail Treadgold trip watch waterfront week whiskey White Pass Whitehorse winter young Yukon River Yukon Territory ထာ

About the author (1996)

Ian Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a reporter for the Victoria Times Colonist, the Vancouver Province, and the Vancouver Sun. He was parliamentary correspondent in Victoria and bureau chief in Ottawa for the Ottawa Sun. He worked in media relations for federal ministers and the prime minister's office, and was head of Transport Canada Information. Ian has written for magazines, radio, television and film. Betty O'Keefe was a Vancouver Province reporter for seven years in the 1950s, working as children's columnist, features writer and church editor. She then worked in corporate communications for 15 years and was commissioned to write two corporate biographies: Brenda: The Story of a Mine and The Mines of Babine Lake. Betty was the first woman to head the public-relations committee for the Mining Association of BC and the first woman to chair the information department of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Klondike's "dear Little Nugget"
AuthorsIan Macdonald, Betty O'Keefe
PublisherTouchWood Editions, 1996
ISBN0920663451, 9780920663455
Length151 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Canada / General
Juvenile Fiction / Family / Parents
  
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