TY - BOOK AU - Beach,Rex TI - The Spoilers AV - PS PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Historical fiction KW - Western stories KW - Gold mines and mining -- Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) -- Fiction KW - Frontier and pioneer life -- Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) -- Fiction KW - Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spoilers_(Beach_novel); Release date is 2004-02-01; Produced by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Spoilers" by Rex Beach is a novel published in 1906 set during the Alaska gold rush. Based on true events Beach witnessed in Nome, the story follows prospector Roy Glenister and his partner as they battle corrupt government officials who seize their valuable gold claim through fraudulent legal schemes. Caught between law and lawlessness, Glenister must fight to reclaim what's rightfully his while navigating romantic complications with two women and confronting a ruthless politician who controls the corrupt system. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5076 ER -