The Clara Nevada: Gold, Greed, Murder and Alaska's Inside Passage - Levi, Steven C
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This book features the saga of the first, last, and final voyage of The Clara Nevada, the Klondike Gold Rush-era steamer that sank on February 5, 1898 under mysterious circumstances resulting in a tragic loss of life (death toll estimates range from 65 to 165). Loaded with a treasure trove of gold ($165,000 in raw gold), The Clara Nevada was heading south along the Inside Passage on her return leg from Skagway, Alaska (the booming Klondike town), when witnesses reported seeing a giant orange fireball just before the steamer sank. According to legend, ten years after the wreck, The Clara Nevada reemerged as a ghost ship manned by a skeleton crew.…mehr

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This book features the saga of the first, last, and final voyage of The Clara Nevada, the Klondike Gold Rush-era steamer that sank on February 5, 1898 under mysterious circumstances resulting in a tragic loss of life (death toll estimates range from 65 to 165). Loaded with a treasure trove of gold ($165,000 in raw gold), The Clara Nevada was heading south along the Inside Passage on her return leg from Skagway, Alaska (the booming Klondike town), when witnesses reported seeing a giant orange fireball just before the steamer sank. According to legend, ten years after the wreck, The Clara Nevada reemerged as a ghost ship manned by a skeleton crew.
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Steven C. Levi is a historian and freelance writer based in Anchorage, Alaska. Levi has lived in Alaska for thirty-three years and has more than thirty books in print, ranging from Alaska history to Westerns, how-to and self-help to poetry and aviation to biography. Levi has also developed educational software, written screenplays and developed creative media presentations using poetry and history, a sample of the last being on his website, parsnackle.com (See the "Phantom Dogsled"). Levi's scholarly articles have appeared in such publications as Journal of the West, Pacific Historian, East Texas Historical Quarterly, Western Folklore, Southern California Quarterly, California and Labor History.