The Ebb and the Flood a History of the Halibut Producers Cooperative

History

Caldwell, Francis

Americas

Waterfront Pr

High adventure, men vs. the wilderness, history and the gold rushes of the North spring to life in this lost gold mine story set in Southeast Alaska and the Cassiar Mining district of Northern British Columbia. 
Cassiar's Elusive Gold is, however, more than just a lost gold mine story. The book provides a rare in-depth look into early-day wilderness transportation, steamboating Northern rivers, the struggle to reach nearly inaccessible gold fields, geography, Indians of Northern British Columbia and pioneer aviation in Southeast Alaska and Canada. In Cassiar's Elusive Gold, a rich placer deposit discovered in 1874 promises to make experienced miners Scotty and Cass rich. Instead they wind up lugging 60 pounds of gold on their backs through unknown wilderness. The trip costs Cass his life and Scotty a leg, fingers and toes and ruins his chances of returning to the mine forever. Decades later Scotty, on his deathbed in Ketchikan, Alaska, passes the location of the mine to his best friend Joe. More years pass before Joe and partner Hugo attempte to locate the mine. Disappointed, without finding any gold, they too are forced to flee the frozen Stikine Plateau.

Cassiar's Elusive Gold

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Trafford

You've read the two recent bestsellers, Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and Linda Greenlaw's The Hungry Ocean. The characters in those books were mature, experienced fishermen. Imagine how terrifying it was for two small children, alone, lost at sea, a dead man's body in the wheelhouse, without long-range radio communication, caught in an easterly November gale in the Gulf of Alaska, a blow the weather bureau called the worst storm in a century! Lash Cloud knew his children and brother-in-law were out in the Gulf somewhere, although most observers assumed the Amigo sank along with several other ships in the area. A massive search failed to find any trace of the Amigo, except an empty life raft! Then came startling news from a trucker in Oregon. He had talked to Danny on a tiny Citizens Band radio. Danny reported his "uncle was dead, the children and their dog were alone, cold, hungry and lost." Weeks later a second Arctic storm struck, burying the 120-foot-long vessel under tons of ice. The story ends with a twist when the Amigo is finally located only days before Christmas, anchored in remote Roaring Bay, hundreds of miles from where expected. The children have harrowing tales to tell, of an inaccurate compass, capture by outlaws and being rescued by a kindly old hermit.. Wrote in a lean, racing prose by an award-winning author who was a commercial fisherman for four decades, this action-packed sea story will have you reaching for your Dramamine.

The Search for the Amigo

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Trafford Publishing

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