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1897 - the last great gold rush! More than a hundred thousand raced toward the Yukon and the Klondike - all of them desperate to be first to arrive at the headwaters of the Yukon. Leaving his federal post in Montana, U.S. Deputy Marshall Patrick Kelly becomes a partner in a spectacular enterprise: the disassembly and transportation of Studdsworth P. Blackmore's famous Alhambra gambling casino to Dawson City so the gold stampeders will be able to spend their new wealth in magnificent luxury. When the ship on which he is travelling founders off the Alaskan coast, newspaper reporters give Kelly his nickname. Jack McGowan and his beautiful daughter Lila, aboard their floating gambling palace, the Faro's Daughter, provide a formidable challenge to Shipwreck Kelly and his partners. With a spring thaw setting in on the waterways of the North, the desperate race to be first to the headwaters of the Yukon is on. Cree Indian Louis LeMo and the bateaux men on the Yukon might swing the balance in Kelly's favor.
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About Dan Cushman
Dan Cushman (1909–2001) was born in Osceola County, Michigan, and grew up on the Cree Indian reservation in Montana. Graduating from the University of Montana with a Bachelor of Science degree, he worked first as a miner, prospector, and geologist before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote more than thirty novels, but he is best remembered for Stay Away, Joe, which was a Book-of-the Month Club selection and the basis for the Broadway musical Whoop-Up. It also became an MGM motion picture starring Elvis Presley. He also wrote numerous books of nonfiction, including Montana: The Gold Frontier and The Great North Trail. His awards include the Western Writers of America Spur Award for The Silver Mountain, the H. G. Merriam Award for distinguished contributions to Montana literature, and the Governor’s Humanities Award from the Montana Committee for the Humanities.
About Dick Hill
Sandra Burr is an AudioFile Earphones Award–wining narrator. She has read more than one hundred books in her career, including the New York Times bestselling Cedar Cove romance series by Debbie Macomber.