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The Floor Of Heaven: A True Tale Of The Last Frontier And The Yukon Gold Rush (2011)

by Howard Blum(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0307461726 (ISBN13: 9780307461728)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Crown

review 1: It's a 3.5. It's a very interesting true story during an equally fascinating period of American history. My only beef with the book is that sometimes it got bogged down into too many details, so it took a bit longer than it should have to tell the tale. It's an understandable difficultly when dealing with real lives - you're afraid to leave anything out, but I think a bit of editing would have made this book more riveting. It was still a really good read though and I learned a bit about the Yukon Gold Rush.
review 2: This is a character-driven historical account of the Klondike gold rush. The first half of the book sets the stage by following the lives of three men, Charlie Siringo, a cowboy detective; Soapy Smith, a con-man; and George Carmack, a prospect... moreor. Their lives eventually meet-up in Skagway, Alaska. The best part was when Charlie was solving the mystery of how the Treadwell mine was robbed. The source books the author cited in the "Note on Sources" at the end would make some good future reading. less

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