About 250 wooden steamboats operated in the Yukon River drainage at the height of the Klondike era. The sternwheelers became gold-rush icons. But the hardy, pragmatic riverboat men were lured by profits, not romance. It was a tough, risky business. The season was short. A navigation error could sink or strand an enormous investment. The steamboats consumed huge amounts of firewood. And if a riverboat didn't find a safe berth or dry dock before freeze up, it risked being crushed by ice the following spring.

• ISBN: 0970849397
• ISBN-13: 9780970849397
• Author : Charles W. Adams
• Foreword by : Jack Williams
• Afterword by : Jack Kutz
• Category : Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers
• Language : English
• Format:  Paperback - Search for other formats
• Publication Date: 6/1/2003
• Publisher Imprint: Epicenter Press
• Price ($AUD): $24.95


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