fort starvation (22 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0553141805. Mass market paperback . First printing of the new Bantam Edition from 1970 as stated on the copyright page. Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition. No Signature.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Bantam 3rd printing. Other than light edge-wear, appears as new.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: very good. NOT an ex library book. No creases. Cover price .60.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. GLASS1-This mass market paperback is NEAR FINE with slight spine roll. #P43, 25 cent cover price. blue w/yellow lettering 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 0.0.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine-. P43, March, First Printing. 138pp. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition thus. 2000 shelf. Pennamt P43. Mass market paperback, pictorial covers. Cocked binding. No names, clean text. "He tracked a killer across the savage West". 138 p. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint Edition. Unmarked and unfaded.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Paperback. Pennant Books P43. Western novel. Very good- condition. Minor edge-wear on front and back covers. Slight yellowing on edges of front cover. Several creases down spine. Minor wear on bottom edge of spine. Slight yellowing on edges of back cover. Weak front hinge. Yellowing on inside front and back covers.

Paperback. first PB. P-43, almost near fine, western novel, paperback,

Paperback. first PB. P-43, near fine, western novel, paperback,

Condizione: acceptable. Book may contain some writing, highlighting, and or cover damage. Shipped fast and reliably!.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. Published September 1970 unopened.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. Pages toned, else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with rubbing mostly on the front panel. U.S. Cavalry discovers bodies of five white men in a desolate part of Utah, they build a fort. Nine years later a cowboy comes to investigate, as his father was one of the dead men.

VG/VG. Half inch chip missing from bottom of spine. Edgeworn. First Edition. 217 pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 217 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Bernard Safran. A story set in 1861, Utah, the United States Cavalry, five men killed, the Indians, and a cache of gold, all make for a wild chase from Texas to Utah country. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to the corners. Price clipped. beautiful copy!.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. None (illustratore). A gripping work of military fiction set in Utah in the 19th Century, written by American author Frank Gruber. This is the first edition of the work printed outside of the US. First edition was published in New York in 1952. This edition was published in Toronto in 1953. In original publisher's blue cloth binding with unclipped dust wrapper. Frank Gruber was an American writer known for his stories for pulp fiction magazines. He mainly wrote Wester and detective stories set in America. He was also known for his contribution to Hollywood, creating television series and writing film scripts. This particular work follows the story of Fort Starvation, a military base in Utah which was the location for the death of five men from the U.S. Cavalry. One of the sons of these men discovers the perplexing story and ventures to Fort Starvation to discover what really happened there. With a previous owner's stamp of Mr & Mrs. Ted. E. Spreng, Texas to the front paste down. With an inscription to the front paste down, dated 1953 and crossed out. In original publisher's cloth binding, with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with minor shelf wear only. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Owner's stamp and inscription crossed out to front paste down. Dust wrapper in very good condition, with minor shelf wear and minor chipping. Light sunning and rubbing to the wrap with the odd mark. Age toning to the reverse of the wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean with age toning. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Frank Gruber to fellow mystery writer, and past president of the Western Writers of American, Thomas Thompson, on the front endpaper. "To June and Tommy Thompson with the best wishes and admiration of Frank Gruber." Near fine in a Nf. dj. (Spine on dj. somewhat faded, but still perfectly readable. Paper in text age toned) Nice association.; Signed by Author(s).

Ray-Richardson "Starvation Winter in the Klondike" Archive 1897-1898. Circle City and Fort Klondike, Alaska. Archival collection consisting of telegrams, letters, financial documents, and newspaper clippings all pertaining to the Klondike Gold Rush, especially regarding the winter of 1897-1898 in and around Circle City and Fort Yukon Alaska, and Dawson, Yukon Territory. About 3 inches of documents. Expected wear but overall, the archive is in very good condition and is generally legible and organized. A full inventory will be provided with the collection along with transcriptions for a number of the important holograph letters. The Klondike Gold Rush triggered a migration of an estimated 100,000 people into southeast Alaska headed towards Yukon Territory and the Klondike. More than half those who left for the Klondike never made it, turning around. Regardless, such a surge of people in remote interior Yukon/Alaska going into the winter of 1897, when no supplies could be moved, left a huge risk of starvation or malnutrition. The Canadian Government required each prospector to bring a year's supply of food, in order to prevent starvation. Meanwhile, the United States Government, by orders of President McKinley and Secretary of War Alger, would, on August 4th, 1897, dispatch Captain P. Henry Ray and Lieutenant W.P. Richardson to "report as fully and frequently as you can, the condition of affairs, and make such recommendations as you may deem best." The telegram from Alger would go on to itemize an extensive list of questions that he and the President expected Ray and Richardson to provide answers, including, "Is there food in the country for the population to winter there?" This archive contains several versions of this telegram. Captain Patrick Henry Ray (1842-1911) was born in Wisconsin and served as a captain with the 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery Regiment in the American Civil War and later served in the Indian Wars. By 1881 he had established a meteorological and magnetic observation station at Barrow, Alaska and the Ray River and Ray Mountains were named after him. After the "Starvation Winter" Ray was recalled to Washington and was soon sent to fight in the Spanish-American War. Wilds Preston Richardson (1861-1929) served in the United States Army and became known for his skills as an explorer and geographer of Alaska in the late 19th century and early 20th century. It's very likely Richardson and Ray were at least acquainted prior to their joint orders to be stationed in Circle City in 1897. During World War One Richardson was involved in the "Polar Bear Expedition" as part of the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War. This collection apparently came through Ray family heirs and only contains several Richardson documents--albeit one of the most important letters in the archive is from Richardson to Ray. The collection is organized chronologically beginning with 10 telegrams authorizing Ray to collect supplies at Fort Russell Wyoming preparing to head north. A telegram dated August 3, 1897 from Ray's wife Ada reads, "Take a Kodak, be good to yourself, good bye, good luck." As early as August 26th, we see warnings of impending trouble. In a letter from two private companies at St. Michael, Alaska to Captain Ray we read, "Believing the situation here to be critical owning to the number of people now here.state of destitution.absence of civil authority.request a suitable guard." A September 22, 1897, letter from North American Transportation and Trading Co., Circle City, Alaska reports on a "miner's meeting" to plan on commandeering the vessel P.B. Weare and taking the goods. Several days later Captain Ray signs a note, "Goods taken from Steamer Bella by miners at Circle City." On October 1st, Ray receives a letter from Dawson City which offered free passage for up to 1,000 miners on the Steamer Bella on its return trip up the Yukon River to Fort Yukon as Canadian officials fear starvation in Dawson. Officials still expected up to 10,000 additional prospectors to arrive and overwinter in Dawson. Knowing there were not enough foodstuffs for these numbers, they encouraged miners to overwinter in United Stated Territory at Fort Yukon or Circle City. "There is not a restaurant open, or anything left but beef to be bought.send this letter through if possible--at any risk." A month later Lieutenant Richardson writes Ray a two-page letter regarding the attempt to take possession of the cache of provisions belonging to the Alaska Commercial Company at Fort Yukon. "I should estimate the number armed at 35 or 40." Ray replies, "I at once issued a notice taking possession of the cache & had them posted that night on the door of the store house." The holograph letter goes on in vivid detail the threats made against Ray and the continued threat to seize the food. Cooler heads eventually prevailed. Several letters of thanks, from the Alaska Commercial Company and North American Transportation & Trading Company to Ray for his swift actions are in the archive. Three letters to Ray from J.J. Healy in Dawson City talks of the need for martial law and the threat of seizure of the stores of liquor at Ft. Yukon. Healy was sheriff of Choteau County Montana before establishing a trading post at Dyea, Alaska about 1886. The collection also contains a typed letter signed from the Alaskan poet Sam Dunham regarding a bill for provisions. With starvation a real possibility, one idea floated was to import reindeer for a food source. The reindeer visionary was Sheldon Jackson, a Presbyterian missionary and the government's General Agent of Education for Alaska. This archive holds a letter to Captain Ray ordering cooperation with Dr. Jackson with his mission of reindeer evangelism. Despite dire predictions, death from starvation did not happen--mostly because many fewer miners overwintered than predicted. Meanwhile scurvy, dysentery, malaria and typhoid took its toll on Klondike miners. This large archive als.