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Bonfire Saloon
A Narrative Poetry Snapshot of the Alaska Gold Rush, Nome, December 3, 1903
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- English
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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
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- ALASKA!
- Actual Names of Alaska Gold Rush Argonauts
- Harrison Hill Comic Traveling Troupe
- Buzzard Kid
- Moose Ptarmigan Ben
- Kitty the Bitch
- Charles the Twelfth
- Windy Smith
- Connie the Wiggler
- Dago Joe
- Kangaroo Jack
- Chechako Lil
- Caribou Bill
- Cast Iron Kid
- Box Car Aggie
- Jimmy the Goat
- Hungry Jack
- Handsome Harry
- Spanish Marie
- Diamond Dick
- Whiskey Jack
- Rabbit Nose Bob
- The Doughnut Queen
- Sawdust King
- Slaughterhouse Mike
- Two Step Louie
- Tommy the Rat
- The School Marm
- Waterfront Brown
- Tripod Pete
- Roulette Joe
- Short and Dirty
- Long Shorty
- Scotch Albert
- Rotten Egg Mike
- Claw Hammer Bill
- Marshal Jew Bob
- Ham Grease Jimmy
- Happy Jack
- Maggie the Bag
- Montana Pete
- Peg Legged Jack
- Economic Willie
- Steve Levi
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