Alaska and Yukon History Along the Highway [Paperback]

Ted Stone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 10, 2002

A traveler's guide to the fascinating facts, intriguing incidents and lively legends in Alaska's and Yukon's past put history on the move with this inside look at the remarkable chronicles and fascinating lore of Alaska and the Yukon Territory. With maps and photographs accompanying the text, Ted Stone retraces the route of the original Gold Rush trails from Skagway to Dawson City, then follows the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek to Delta, Alaska. Along the way readers meet fur traders and trappers, dreamers and dance-hall girls, stampeders and saloon keepers.

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About the Author

Ted Stone has been gathering the lore of the North American West for over twenty years. As editor of Red Deer Press's Roundup Books, he has compiled such best-sellers as Great Tales of the Gold Rush, 100 Years of Cowboy Stories, A Roundup of Cowboy Humor, The Complete Cowboy Reader and Riding the Northern Range: Poems from the Last Best-West. Ted Stone is also the best-selling author of Cowboy Logic: The Wit and Wisdom of the West and It's So Cold on the Prairies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Red Deer Press; 1 edition (September 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0889951454
• ISBN-13: 978-0889951457
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.1 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,699,460 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #81 in Books > Travel > Canada > Provinces > Territories

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