Bonfire Saloon

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

Steve Levi

• Editorial: Publication Consultants
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781637471050
• Categoría: Literature
• Categoría: American Poetry

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.

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

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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...