Gold Fever (Amazing Stories) - Softcover

Rich Mole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554390532 ISBN 13: 9781554390533

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd., 2006

Synopsis

In the dirt lay the promise of success... or of failure. In the good ol' days of the gold fever, dreams were as contagious as influenza. The men and women of the Klondike Gold Rush endured back-breaking work, sizzling summers, and frozen winters, hoping for some luck. On yer mark, get set, stake yer claims!

About this title

About the Author:

British Columbia-born author Rich Mole has enjoyed an eclectic communications career, as a former broadcaster, a freelance journalist, and, for 20 years, the president of a successful Vancouver Island advertising agency. A lifelong fascination with history has fuelled his desire to write about the times and people of Canada's past. Rich now makes his home in Calgary, Alberta.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

It was the winter of 1893. In one of the Forty Mile's saloons, Jim Washburn watched as the prospector sitting across from him fanned his cards out on the tabletop, looked up, and grinned. The Forty Mile tough-guy sat in stunned silence. Washburn could have sworn he had his opponent pegged. It was inconceivable that he had read him wrongly. Where had that hand come from, all of a sudden?Dropping his cards, Washburn reached across his belt. The glint of the knife blade flashed in the lamplight as he lunged across the heavy wooden table, spilling poker chips left and right. The man across the table stared open-mouthed at the spreading line of red staining his torn shirt. He looked up and took in Washburn's taunting leer. Then, without rising from his chair, the man calmly reached down, lifted up his revolver, pointed it at Washburn and squeezed the trigger.The ears of every man in the saloon rang with the report. When the smoke drifted away, Washburn was writhing wordlessly on the plank floor, hands clutching his hip, blood seeping between his fingers. The time for law and order in the Yukon had come at last.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1554390532
• ISBN 13: 9781554390533
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144