YUKON RIVERBOAT DAYS, A Biography by Joyce Yardley (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Joyce Yardley. Published by Hancock House, Surrey, BC., 1996, 1st Edition. SIGNED and dedicated by the Author. Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 189 pages.  

YUKON RIVERBOAT DAYS, A Biography by Joyce Yardley, is first hand account of the trials, tribulations and hardships of Riverboat men and their families lives in the Yukon.

Many books have been written about the Klondike gold rush of 1898, and the paddlewheelers that piled the waters of the mighty Yukon and its tributaries. Much less attention has been paid to the folks who lived along the shores of the river; between the main centers of Dawson City and Whitehorse, in the Yukon Territory.

The early years on the Yukon river, about which I was writing, seemed much closer from that perspective and I found it easier to identify with the folks whose stories I have told here (many of whom I know personally as a child, as older people). Some of these folks have since passed on, but have loft this account of their personal experiences. Others are very much alive, having come to the Yukon in the more recent days of the riverboats. Many of these true-life chronicles are excerpts from personal interviews with Yukon old-timers, taped in the mid-1970's.

1st Edition & Signed by Author  

ISBN: 9780888393865  

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