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  • Rebel Women of the West Coast

    Their Triumphs, Tragedies and Lasting Legacies

    de Rich Mole ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Here are the stories of singularly courageous West Coast women—driven, obsessed, sometimes desperate people whose nonconformist beliefs and actions made them rebels in society's eyes. Many faced hardship and ridicule as they pursued their goals. In these vivid biographies, Rich Mole chronicles the lives of some of the most celebrated and controversial women in BC, Washington and Oregon, including ... Leer más

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  • Gold Fever: Incredible Tales of the Klondike Gold Rush

    Incredible Tales of the Klondike Gold Rush

    de Rich Mole ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    In 1897, tens of thousands of would-be prospectors flooded into the Yukon in search of instant wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush. In this historical tale of mayhem and obsession, characters like prospectors George Carmack and Skookum Jim, Skagway gangster Soapy Smith and Mountie Sam Steele come to life. Enduring savage weather, unforgiving terrain, violence and starvation, a lucky few made ... Leer más

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  • Rebel Women of the Gold Rush: Extraordinary Achievements and Daring Adventures

    Extraordinary Achievements and Daring Adventures

    de Rich Mole ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    During the frenzied Klondike Gold Rush, many daring women ventured north to seek riches and adventure or to escape a troubled past. These unforgettable, strong-willed women defied the social conventions of the time and endured heartbreak and horrific conditions to build a life in the wild North. At the height of the gold rush, Martha Purdy, Nellie Cashman, Ethel Berry and a few hundred other women ... Leer más

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  • Dirty Thirties Desperadoes

    Forgotten Victims of the Great Depression

    de Rich Mole ...
    In October 1935, three prairie farm boys embarked on a deadly trail of robbery and murder that stretched across three western Canadian provinces and made newspaper headlines from coast to coast and as far away as Los Angeles. By the end of the spree, seven people were dead, including the fugitives themselves and four law-enforcement officers. For the next 70 years, these Depression-era “farm-boy ... Leer más

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  • Whisky Wars of the Canadian West

    de Rich Mole ...
    In 1874, the newly formed North West Mounted Police marched west to shut down unscrupulous liquor traders who had devastated the lives of many First Nations people. The Mounties' famous trek heralded over 50 years of "whisky wars" in the Canadian West. Author Rich Mole traces the turbulent history of alcohol, temperance movements and prohibition between 1870 and the 1920s through the stories of ... Leer más

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  • Scoundrels and Saloons: Whisky Wars of the Pacific Northwest 1840-1917

    Whisky Wars of the Pacific Northwest 1840-1917

    de Rich Mole ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    From the days of the fur trade, one constant thread weaves its way through the tumultuous history of frontier British Columbia, Washington and Oregon—the war over liquor. Between 1840 and 1917, the whisky wars of the west coast were fought by historical heavyweights, including Matthew Baillie Begbie (the “Hanging Judge”) and Wyatt Earp, and a contentious assortment of murderous whisky traders, ... Leer más

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  • Rum-runners and Renegades

    Whisky Wars of the Pacific Northwest, 1917-2012

    de Rich Mole ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    On October 1, 1917, prohibition came into effect in the province of British Columbia. Washington and Oregon had gone dry the previous year. The ban on liquor sales led to deadly conflict and legal chaos in the Pacific Northwest, and the legacy of those “booze battles” continues into the 21st century.Rich Mole introduced readers to West Coast prohibition’s pioneer years in Scoundrels and Saloons: ... Leer más

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  • The Chilcotin War: A Tale of Death and Reprisal

    A Tale of Death and Reprisal

    de Rich Mole ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    This colourful account of the Chilcotin War is an insightful and absorbing examination of an event that helped to shape the course of British Columbia history. In the spring of 1864, 14 men building a road along the Homathko River in British Columbia were killed by a Tsilhqot’in (Chilcotin) war party. Other violent deaths followed in the conflict that became known as the Chilcotin War. In this ... Leer más

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  • The Death of Albert Johnson: Mad Trapper of Rat River

    Mad Trapper of Rat River

    Albert Johnson was a loner, a deadly shot, who in 1932 triggered a gruelling manhunt that has become an Arctic legend. For over six weeks, amid blizzards and numbing cold, he eluded a posse of trappers, First Nations and RCMP, who for the very first time used a two-way radio and an airplane in their search.Johnson was involved in four shoot-outs, killing one policeman and gravely wounding two ... Leer más

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  • Death Wins in the Arctic

    The Lost Winter Patrol of 1910

    de Kerry Karram ...
    With prospectors, trappers, and whalers pouring into northwestern Canada, the North West Mounted Police were dispatched to the newest frontier to maintain patrols, protect indigenous peoples, and enforce laws in the North. In carrying out their duties, these intrepid men endured rigorous and dangerous conditions.On December 21, 1910, a four-man patrol left Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, ... Leer más

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  • The Forty-niners: The California Gold Rush

    The Forty-niners:The discovery of gold in January, 1848 at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, by James Marshall was the beginning of the California gold rush. It took some time for the news of the first discoveries to spread and then to be believed as credible. Gold had been found in small quantities several years before, and only the actual sight of the metal in considerable weight could excite ... Leer más

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  • Mountain Men

    de Rick Steber ...
    Series series Tales of the Wild West
    Born into every generation are a few restless souls who long for adventure. In the early 1800s this wild breed became mountain men who headed up the Missouri, crossed the Rock-ies and continued west, hunting, trapping and exploring as they went.One mountainman,reflecting the general attitude of the day, wrote, 'We found the richest place for beaver we had yet come across, and it took us forty days ... Leer más

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