On this episode of Our American Stories no woman figured more prominently on the Yukon and Alaskan frontiers than Belinda Mulrooney She gained international fame as the richest woman in the Klondike and made and lost more than one fortune She became a character in novels and her dog the inspiration for Buck in the Call of the Wild Here to tell the story is Roger McGrath author of Gunfighters Highwaymen and Vigilantes Violence on the Frontier Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories Jack London's most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang both set in the Klondike Gold Rush and so is this story Here to narrate the gripping finale of Jack London's masterpiece To Build a Fire is Roger McGrath Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories no woman figured more prominently on the Yukon and Alaskan frontiers than Belinda Mulrooney She gained international fame as the richest woman in the Klondike and made and lost more than one fortune She became a character in novels and her dog the inspiration for Buck in the Call of the Wild Here to tell the story is Roger McGrath author of Gunfighters Highwaymen and Vigilantes Violence on the Frontier Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories Jack London's most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang both set in the Klondike Gold Rush as well as his short story To Build a Fire Here to narrate the gripping finale of Jack London's masterpiece To Build a Fire is Roger McGrath Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories David LaBelle's last memory of his mother was seeing her washed away in a raging flood when he was a senior in high school She would never be found It took David years to wrestle with the loss and eventually he decided to write a semi-fictional book about the event called Bridges amp Angels as a therapeutic exercise No woman figured more prominently on the Yukon and Alaskan frontiers than Belinda Mulrooney She gained international fame as the richest woman in the Klondike and made and lost more than one fortune She became [... more]