17 Best nonfiction books like Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold Fields 1896-1898: A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Gold Mines and Camps by William Haskell

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Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold Fields 1896-1898: A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Gold Mines and Camps

By: William Haskell

4.09

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

“This is the plain story of one who began life in a little township of Vermont about thirty-two yea…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold Fields 1896-1898: A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Gold Mines and Camps by William Haskell , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881

By: James B. Gillett

4.14

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

Texas in the nineteenth century was a dangerous place. The Texas Rangers were there to keep people … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

2. Three Years in the Klondike (1904)

By: Jeremiah Lynch

3.00

Format: 282 pages,

Jeremiah Lynch was a businessman (and former San Francisco politician) who went to the Klondike in … read more

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3. The Diary of a Forty-Niner

By: Chauncey L. Canfield

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

1849, California. The Gold Rush had begun. 300,000 gold-seekers left their homes, grabbed what they… read more

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4. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894

By: Daniel James Brown

3.80

Format: 220 pages,

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5. A Painted House

By: John Grisham

4.07

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in th… read more

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6. The Talisker Dead (The Misty Isle #3)

By: J.M. Dalgliesh

4.43

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulling on the threads of your past... is enough to kill you... When a teenage islander goes mis… read more

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7. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

By: Timothy Egan

4.13

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken nat… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty."

-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

"Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America, no other is so terrible as fire."

-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

"Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power."

-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

"Onward and upward he pushed until rock, ground, and forest came to an end, until there was nothing but a sharp edge of blunt earth protruding in the late light of the range, where he could see well b…"

-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

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8. The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter

By: John Crittenden Duval

3.85

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

At six foot two inches and two hundred and forty pounds, Big-Foot Wallace cut a formidable figure a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide

By: John Nelson

4.34

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Frontiersman, military scout, interpreter, guide, police chief, and saloon owner; John Young Nelson… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting

By: William Thomas Hamilton

4.17

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

Of course I knew how to scalp, and soon accomplished the feat, much to his satisfaction, for he sai… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

By: Fanny Kelly

3.87

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

“I was a member of a small company of emigrants, who were attacked by an overwhelming force of host… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Experience is a great teacher, and we were then in her school, and learned that while hope offers the faintest token of refuge, we pause upon the fearful brink of eternity, and look back for rescue."

-Fanny Kelly, Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

"Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy round of youthful pleasure and folly heed her wise counsels. How lightly do we look upon that zealous…"

-Fanny Kelly, Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

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12. Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard

By: Zenas Leonard

3.95

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

In the spring of 1830, Leonard, a native of Clearfield, Pennsylvania embarked on an expedition acro… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of By Ox Team to California: Crossing the Plains in 1860 by Lavinia Honeyman Porter

13. By Ox Team to California: Crossing the Plains in 1860

By: Lavinia Honeyman Porter

4.21

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

“We then determined to use the small remnant of our fortune to provide a suitable outfit for a leng… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. The Life of John Wesley Hardin

By: John Wesley Hardin

3.79

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

Born to a Methodist preacher in 1853, near Bonham, Texas, Wes Hardin killed his first man, a former… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Journal Of A Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843

By: Osborne Russell

3.83

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyet… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter

By: Tom Horn

4.20

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

1903. Tom Horn awaits execution for the murder of fourteen-year-old boy. He writes this memoir. Tom… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

By: Sarah Raymond Herndon

3.84

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

“Why are we here? Why have we left home, friends, relatives, associates, and loved ones, who have m… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Where Courage Began: Velma's Story

By: G.L. Gooding

4.18

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

A blizzard rages outside a ramshackle Iowa farmhouse in February of 1921. Five-year-old Velma and h… read more

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19. The Call of the Last Frontier: The True Story of a Woman's Twenty-Year Alaska Adventure

By: Melissa L. Cook

4.43

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

"I went to Alaska searching for a job and found an adventure!" —Melissa L. Cook It’s all here—livi… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Seven Men of Spandau: The Last of the Hitler Gang (Hitler's Henchmen) by Jack Fishman

20. The Seven Men of Spandau: The Last of the Hitler Gang (Hitler's Henchmen)

By: Jack Fishman

4.27

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The riveting story of what happened to the seven top Nazi war criminals in the aftermath of World W… read more

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21. Indian Depredations in Texas

By: J.W. Wilbarger

4.17

Format: 594 pages, Kindle Edition

"This volume is the most thorough compilation of accounts of Indian warfare in the Texas 19th centu… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 by Charles Larpenteur

22. Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872

By: Charles Larpenteur

3.98

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

"The life-record kept by Charles Larpenteur is one of our most important sources of information con… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. Missouri Wilderness 1829

By: Daniel Ogren

4.39

Format: 515 pages, Kindle Edition

Missouri Wilderness 1829 tells the story of Jack Frankland as he spends the winter surviving the wi… read more

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24. Across the Plains in 1884

By: Catherine Sager

3.65

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

In April 1844 the Sager family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey … read more

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  • history
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25. Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold Fields 1896-1898: A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Gold Mines and Camps

By: William Haskell

4.09

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

“This is the plain story of one who began life in a little township of Vermont about thirty-two yea… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Alaska Sourdough: The Story of Slim Williams by Richard Morenus

26. Alaska Sourdough: The Story of Slim Williams

By: Richard Morenus

4.66

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Clyde Charles “Slim” Williams (1881-1974) first arrived in Alaska in 1900 at the age of 19, looking… read more

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27. The True Exploits of Ben Arnold (Annotated)

By: Ben Arnold

4.38

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

Ben Arnold was the contemporary of Wild Bill, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Buffalo Bill, George Armst… read more

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  • history
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28. Life Among the Apaches

By: John Carey Cremony

3.90

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

They lived and roamed in the mountains and canyons in the Southwest of the United States and Northe… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. From Out of the Yukon: A Backcountry Adventure Hunting Big-Game in the Northern Wilderness

By: James H Bond

4.48

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

From out of these mountains come many things. . .Here is a big game hunting story from the greatest… read more

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30. To Face a Savage Winter: A Mountain Man Classic Western (Savage Land Book 2)

By: John Legg

4.49

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

THE PREVIOUS TWO WINTERS WERE HELLACIOUS. THIS ONE IS SAVAGE…The third winter in the Rocky Mountain… read more

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31. The Rifleman in Alaska

By: James H. Bond

4.32

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Anyone who has experienced the thrill of the wilderness cannot get enough. He can only count the da… read more

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18 best-selling history books like Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold Fields 1896-1898: A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Gold Mines and Camps by William Haskell

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4.13

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3.85

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James P. Beckwourth

4.16

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James Willard Schultz

4.23

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