Fred w ludditt (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good.

Soft Cover, Spine Stapled. Zustand: Very Good. Clean tight copy. Signed by both Ludditt and his wife, Esther. During his time interviewing oldtimers in Barkerville, reading old records, ledgers, etc, Fred logged "personalities that will not die". In Campfire Sketches he relates, matter-of factly, heart breaking tragedies, acts of heroic kindness, and always humor. Fred has captured the aura and fascination of Barkerville. B/w photos. 104 pp. Signed by Author(s). …

Zustand: Good. 1969. No Edition Remarks. 182 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over grey cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Barkerville Lives On! First published in 1969, Barkerville Days is the nearest thing we have to a definitive history of one of the world's most colourful gold rushes. It has taken more than a hundred years for the first truly extensive and carefully researched story of Barkerville and its Cariboo goldfields to be placed between covers of a comprehensive volume. This book, rich in fact and anecdotal history, is the work of a do-it-yourself miner-historian, a mining man who talked the language of the last of the originals and their first descendants. A dedicated gatherer of the authoritative story of the Cariboo, centering on Barkerville, Fred Ludditt has done for that area what another Mitchell Press author, the late Walter R. Hamilton, did for the Klondike in his book The Yukon Story. Here is the priceless product of interviews which can never be done again. It is the story of how Billy Barker's claim suddenly sprouted the lusty town of Barkerville far inland from the sea in the upper headwaters of British Columbia's famed Fraser River. Barkerville Camp, which in its heyday was the most populous place on the continent west of Toronto and north of San Francisco, will live on in these pages for posterity to know.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Author's signature upon title page. Black and white archival illustrations. "In Campfire Sketches, Fred Ludditt has written the natural companion to his Barkerville Days and his still earlier, Gold in the Cariboo. Fred gives his readers the solid facts in an interesting account, stranger and more amazing than fiction." - Introduction. 104 pages. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Campfire Sketches of the Cariboo *SIGNED BY AUTHOR*; Signed by Author(s).…