The Spoilers

    The Spoilers

    A Klondike Gold Rush Adventure

    By Rex Beach

    $8.95

    Publication Date: 3rd October 2014

    A lucky strike by a pair of prospectors turns into a nightmare when crooked politicians attempt to steal their claim. Loaded with action and romance, this 1906 bestseller recaptures the excitement of the Gold Rush era, when thousands of prospectors headed to Alaska in hopes of finding riches. Miners, gamblers, and fortune-hunters of every description populate these pages, chasing their dreams among the rowdy camps and boom towns of the frozen north.
    Author Rex Beach, known as the Victor Hugo of the North, based this novel on a true series of events involving the theft of Yukon gold mines b... Read More
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    A lucky strike by a pair of prospectors turns into a nightmare when crooked politicians attempt to steal their claim. Loaded with action and romance, this 1906 bestseller recaptures the excitement of the Gold Rush era, when thousands of prospectors headed to Alaska in hopes of finding riches. Miners, gamblers, and fortune-hunters of every description populate these pages, chasing their dreams among the rowdy camps and boom towns of the frozen north.
    Author Rex Beach, known as the Victor Hugo of the North, based this novel on a true series of events involving the theft of Yukon gold mines b... Read More
    Description
    A lucky strike by a pair of prospectors turns into a nightmare when crooked politicians attempt to steal their claim. Loaded with action and romance, this 1906 bestseller recaptures the excitement of the Gold Rush era, when thousands of prospectors headed to Alaska in hopes of finding riches. Miners, gamblers, and fortune-hunters of every description populate these pages, chasing their dreams among the rowdy camps and boom towns of the frozen north.
    Author Rex Beach, known as the Victor Hugo of the North, based this novel on a true series of events involving the theft of Yukon gold mines by corrupt politicians. Beach seasoned the dramatic tale with incidents from his own experiences prospecting for gold in Nome at the beginning of the twentieth century. Five different movie versions of The Spoilers include versions with John Wayne and Gary Cooper in the role of the rugged hero.
    Reprint of the Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1906 edition.
    Details
    • Price: $8.95
    • Pages: 336
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Publication Date: 3rd October 2014
    • Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
    • Illustration Note: 4
    • ISBN: 9780486798967
    • Format: eBook
    • BISACs:
      FICTION / Historical
      FICTION / Westerns
      FICTION / Action & Adventure
      FICTION / Classics
    Author Bio
    Known as the Victor Hugo of the North, Rex Beach (1877–1949) wrote more than a dozen adventure novels. His first, The Spoilers, is based on his experiences prospecting for gold in Nome at the turn of the 20th century. Beach was also a member of the American water polo team at the 1904 Olympics.
    Table of Contents
    I. The Encounter
    II. The Stowaway
    III. In Which Glenister Errs
    IV. The Killing
    V. Wherin a Man Appears
    VI. And a Mine is JUmped
    VII. The "Bronco Kid's" Eavesdropping
    VIII. Dextry Makes a Call
    IX. Sluice Rpbbers
    X. The Wit of an Adventuress
    XI. Whereina Writ and a Riot Fail
    XII. Counterplots
    XIII. In Which a Man is Possessed by a Devil
    XIV. A Midnight Messenger
    XV. Vigilantes
    XVI. In Which the Truth Begins to Bare Itself
    XVII. The Drip of Water in the Dark
    XVIII. Wherein a Trap is Baited
    XIX. Dynamite
    XX. In Which Three go to the Sign of the Sled and But Two Return
    XXI. The Hammer-Lock
    XXII. The Promise of Dreams
    A lucky strike by a pair of prospectors turns into a nightmare when crooked politicians attempt to steal their claim. Loaded with action and romance, this 1906 bestseller recaptures the excitement of the Gold Rush era, when thousands of prospectors headed to Alaska in hopes of finding riches. Miners, gamblers, and fortune-hunters of every description populate these pages, chasing their dreams among the rowdy camps and boom towns of the frozen north.
    Author Rex Beach, known as the Victor Hugo of the North, based this novel on a true series of events involving the theft of Yukon gold mines by corrupt politicians. Beach seasoned the dramatic tale with incidents from his own experiences prospecting for gold in Nome at the beginning of the twentieth century. Five different movie versions of The Spoilers include versions with John Wayne and Gary Cooper in the role of the rugged hero.
    Reprint of the Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1906 edition.
    • Price: $8.95
    • Pages: 336
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Publication Date: 3rd October 2014
    • Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
    • Illustrations Note: 4
    • ISBN: 9780486798967
    • Format: eBook
    • BISACs:
      FICTION / Historical
      FICTION / Westerns
      FICTION / Action & Adventure
      FICTION / Classics
    Known as the Victor Hugo of the North, Rex Beach (1877–1949) wrote more than a dozen adventure novels. His first, The Spoilers, is based on his experiences prospecting for gold in Nome at the turn of the 20th century. Beach was also a member of the American water polo team at the 1904 Olympics.
    I. The Encounter
    II. The Stowaway
    III. In Which Glenister Errs
    IV. The Killing
    V. Wherin a Man Appears
    VI. And a Mine is JUmped
    VII. The "Bronco Kid's" Eavesdropping
    VIII. Dextry Makes a Call
    IX. Sluice Rpbbers
    X. The Wit of an Adventuress
    XI. Whereina Writ and a Riot Fail
    XII. Counterplots
    XIII. In Which a Man is Possessed by a Devil
    XIV. A Midnight Messenger
    XV. Vigilantes
    XVI. In Which the Truth Begins to Bare Itself
    XVII. The Drip of Water in the Dark
    XVIII. Wherein a Trap is Baited
    XIX. Dynamite
    XX. In Which Three go to the Sign of the Sled and But Two Return
    XXI. The Hammer-Lock
    XXII. The Promise of Dreams