Bonfire Saloon
eBook - ePub

Bonfire Saloon

A Narrative Poetry Snapshot of the Alaska Gold Rush, Nome, December 3, 1903

  1. 156 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Bonfire Saloon

A Narrative Poetry Snapshot of the Alaska Gold Rush, Nome, December 3, 1903

About this book

The Alaska Gold Rush is the least studied era of United States history. If you pull up Alaska Gold Rush on Wikipedia, you will get the Klondike Gold Rush. The Klondike Gold Rush was centered around Dawson in Canada's Yukon Territory and lasted 14 months. The Alaska Gold Rush lasted 40 years, from 1880 to the end of the First World War, and covered an area one-fifth that of the Lower 48 states. Bonfire Saloon is not a work of narrative poetry. It is a book of history disguised as literature. The slang, words, terms, and expressions would be used in a saloon in 1903 in a gold rush. The names of the people are authentic, and the events in the book happened. Bonfire Saloon is a ground-level look at the events and personalities of 39 individuals on a single night in a Nome saloon.

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ACTUAL NAMES OF ALASKA GOLD RUSH ARGONAUTS
Many of the argonauts, good time girls and cons in Nome had reasons not being in the lower states. They could not use their real names in Alaska. So they did not. And the practice spread across the District. (Alaska did not become a Territory until 1912 and did not become a State until 1959.)
All of the names in this book are authentic. The following list of sobriquets are actual individuals whose activities have been lost to history
MEN
Waterfront Brown
Swiftwater Bill
Billy the Turk
Step and a half
Two Step Louie
Buckskin Harry
Eat-em-up Frank
Hard Luck Charlie
Muck-Luck Kid
Scurvy Kid
Skylight Kid
In and Out Kid
Malamoot Kid
The Dutch Kid
The Daylight Kid
Dago Kid
Blueberry Kid
Forty-mile Kid
Sixty-Mile Kid
The Crummy Kid
Honest Ike
Deep Hole Johnson
Too Much Johnson
Husky Kid
Slivers Perry
Slivers Feiges
Powerful Joe
Blackie
Squeaky Pete
Hot Air Smith
Brainey Smith
Windy Smith
Jumping Smith
Happy Jack
French Joe
Cock-eyed Shorty
John the Greek
Moose John
B...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. ALASKA!
  6. Actual Names of Alaska Gold Rush Argonauts
  7. Harrison Hill Comic Traveling Troupe
  8. Buzzard Kid
  9. Moose Ptarmigan Ben
  10. Kitty the Bitch
  11. Charles the Twelfth
  12. Windy Smith
  13. Connie the Wiggler
  14. Dago Joe
  15. Kangaroo Jack
  16. Chechako Lil
  17. Caribou Bill
  18. Cast Iron Kid
  19. Box Car Aggie
  20. Jimmy the Goat
  21. Hungry Jack
  22. Handsome Harry
  23. Spanish Marie
  24. Diamond Dick
  25. Whiskey Jack
  26. Rabbit Nose Bob
  27. The Doughnut Queen
  28. Sawdust King
  29. Slaughterhouse Mike
  30. Two Step Louie
  31. Tommy the Rat
  32. The School Marm
  33. Waterfront Brown
  34. Tripod Pete
  35. Roulette Joe
  36. Short and Dirty
  37. Long Shorty
  38. Scotch Albert
  39. Rotten Egg Mike
  40. Claw Hammer Bill
  41. Marshal Jew Bob
  42. Ham Grease Jimmy
  43. Happy Jack
  44. Maggie the Bag
  45. Montana Pete
  46. Peg Legged Jack
  47. Economic Willie
  48. Steve Levi