[PDF.14ab] Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men and Community in the Klondike

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

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 | #3414999 in Books |  University of Washington Press |  1998-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.01 x.80 x6.01l,.82 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Apples and Oranges|By Ruthie|In Charlene Porsild's 1998 book, Gamblers and Dreamers, the author looks at 1901 Dawson census data to construct a social history of the town. It's a sturdy piece of work with a lot of value for that particular time period, but the author runs into difficulties when she tries to extrapolate the data to make observations about the Klondike gold rush.| |Porsild's pioneering work is the first social history of the Klondike gold rush based on primary and archival research. ... Until now, no one has tackled the tremendous wealth of diaries and private papers housed in the various provincial and territorial archi

The popular image of the Klondike is of a rush of 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 man’s world made respectable only after the arrival of middle-class women, who miraculously swept out the corners of dirt and vice and ‘civilized’ the society. Like many stereotypes, this picture is only p...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men and Community in the Klondike   |  Charlene Porsild. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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