Gamblers and Dreamers Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike

Name: Gamblers and Dreamers Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike
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ISBN: 9780774806510

ISBN-10: 0774806516

ISBN-13: 9780774806510

Edition: 1998

Authors: Charlene Porsild

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The popular image of the Klondike is of a rush of white, male adventurers who overcame great physical and geographical obstacles in their quest for gold. Young, white, single American men carried forward the ideals and structures of the western frontier. It was a mans world made respectable only after the turn of the century with the arrival of white, middle class women who miraculously swept out the corners of dirt and vice and civilized the society. These impressions endure despite recent attempts to correct them.Gamblers and Dreamerstackles some of the myths about the history of the North in the era of the gold rush. Though many inhabitants came and went, Charlene Porsild focuses on the…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Publication date: 5/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Illustrations, Maps, and Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments



Gamblers of a Hundred Hells and Dreamers from the Seven Seas



The Original Yukoners and the Klondike Gold Rush



The Thrill of the Chase: Miners and Other Labouring People in Dawson



The Scarlet Ladder: Work and Social Life in Dawson's Underworld



'Like Flocks of Migrating Geese': Social Work and Religious Life in the Klondike



Sterling Reputations and Golden Opportunities: The Professional and Business Sectors of Dawson



Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike



Quantifying the Klondike


Notes


Bibliography


Index