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Mad Rush for Gold in Frozen North

Arthur Arnold Dietz

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Description:See Cole,Terrence. "Klondike Literature: The Alaska gold rush tales share a prominent characteristic with the region's mountainous terrain - they are very tall." Columbia Magazine. 22.2 (Summer 2008): 9-16. Date accessed http://columbia.washingtonhistory.org... "In 1914 Arthur Arnold Dietz published one of the most memorable books about the 1897-98 Klondike Stampede, Mad Rush for Gold in Frozen North. Dietz’s shocking memoir tells a horrific tale unmatched by any other Klondike account for its volume of death and starvation, hardship, and suffering. Men drop dead, disappear into glacial crevasses, freeze their limbs, or suffer snow blindness in virtually every chapter. The carnage was dreadful. Out of the original group of 18 men with whom he started for the goldfields, Dietz claimed only he and three others survived. When they were finally rescued, his last three living partners were shattered wrecks, completely broken in health, with two permanently blinded-and like Ishamel, only Dietz was left to tell the tale. No one could verify his story, but no one could contradict it either. Since the publication of Mad Rush for Gold in Frozen North nearly 100 years ago, numerous historians and writers about the Klondike gold rush have relied heavily on the book and quoted it extensively. The best two histories of the gold rush period, Pierre Berton’s Klondike Fever and William R. Hunt’s North of 53, rely heavily on Dietz’s narrative. It is easy to see why both Berton and Hunt were so captivated by the book. Not only is Mad Rush an intriguing story that is exceptionally well told, but it is also an irreplaceable account of one of the most gruesome and irrational episodes of the Klondike gold rush. Although there were many bad ways to get to the Klondike, Dietz’s memoir is a tale of one of the very worst. His autobiography is the only primary source of any length about the so-called Malaspina Glacier trail, a trail famous for futility because it did not exist, as the men and women who tried to follow it soon learned to their sorrow. Perhaps it is fitting that the only memoir written about this imaginary trail up the Malaspina Glacier is imaginary itself. While Mad Rush for Gold in Frozen North may contain some kernels of truth and is based on the adventures of a real person, internal evidence proves that the book is mostly a literary forgery, a historical fabrication that offers us a glimpse not of what actually happened but of what the author thought should have happened on the trail to the Klondike. The historical record indicates that virtually no one who attempted the Malaspina Glacier trek ever made it to the Klondike. The Malaspina Glacier is one of the largest tidewater glaciers in North America, a frozen ocean of ice of almost 1,000 square miles, which flows down across the coastal mountains separating the Yukon basin from the North Pacific. On the map a giant swatch of ice from the mountains to the sea, the Malaspina Glacier-and the Valdez Glacier farther west-appeared to be a frozen highway to the interior, a perfect route across the mountains to the goldfields. But experience soon proved the utter fallacy of Alaska’s glacial highways."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mad Rush for Gold in Frozen North. To get started finding Mad Rush for Gold in Frozen North, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 281

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Time-Mirror Printing and BindingHouse

Release: 1914

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Description: See Cole,Terrence. "Klondike Literature: The Alaska gold rush tales share a prominent characteristic with the region's mountainous terrain - they are very tall." Columbia Magazine. 22.2 (Summer 2008): 9-16. Date accessed http://columbia.washingtonhistory.org... "In 1914 Arthur Arnold Dietz published one of the most memorable books about the 1897-98 Klondike Stampede, Mad Rush for Gold in Frozen North. Dietz’s shocking memoir tells a horrific tale unmatched by any other Klondike account for its volume of death and starvation, hardship, and suffering. Men drop dead, disappear into glacial crevasses, freeze their limbs, or suffer snow blindness in virtually every chapter. The carnage was dreadful. Out of the original group of 18 men with whom he started for the goldfields, Dietz claimed only he and three others survived. When they were finally rescued, his last three living partners were shattered wrecks, completely broken in health, with two permanently blinded-and like Ishamel, only Dietz was left to tell the tale. No one could verify his story, but no one could contradict it either. Since the publication of Mad Rush for Gold in Frozen North nearly 100 years ago, numerous historians and writers about the Klondike gold rush have relied heavily on the book and quoted it extensively. The best two histories of the gold rush period, Pierre Berton’s Klondike Fever and William R. Hunt’s North of 53, rely heavily on Dietz’s narrative. It is easy to see why both Berton and Hunt were so captivated by the book. Not only is Mad Rush an intriguing story that is exceptionally well told, but it is also an irreplaceable account of one of the most gruesome and irrational episodes of the Klondike gold rush. Although there were many bad ways to get to the Klondike, Dietz’s memoir is a tale of one of the very worst. His autobiography is the only primary source of any length about the so-called Malaspina Glacier trail, a trail famous for futility because it did not exist, as the men and women who tried to follow it soon learned to their sorrow. Perhaps it is fitting that the only memoir written about this imaginary trail up the Malaspina Glacier is imaginary itself. While Mad Rush for Gold in Frozen North may contain some kernels of truth and is based on the adventures of a real person, internal evidence proves that the book is mostly a literary forgery, a historical fabrication that offers us a glimpse not of what actually happened but of what the author thought should have happened on the trail to the Klondike. The historical record indicates that virtually no one who attempted the Malaspina Glacier trek ever made it to the Klondike. The Malaspina Glacier is one of the largest tidewater glaciers in North America, a frozen ocean of ice of almost 1,000 square miles, which flows down across the coastal mountains separating the Yukon basin from the North Pacific. On the map a giant swatch of ice from the mountains to the sea, the Malaspina Glacier-and the Valdez Glacier farther west-appeared to be a frozen highway to the interior, a perfect route across the mountains to the goldfields. But experience soon proved the utter fallacy of Alaska’s glacial highways."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mad Rush for Gold in Frozen North. To get started finding Mad Rush for Gold in Frozen North, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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