Sam Steele
Books
- A Ton of Goods Ledgers, Law, and the Klondike Gold Rush · Liszt Think
In July 1897, the steamers Excelsior and Portland docked with a ton of gold, igniting a stampede that would test the limits of human endurance and bureaucratic order.
- The Portland’s Manifest…to be carried and weighed and recorded at the border, was still being written in offices far to the east. The police, under the command of Sam Steele, were already moving toward the passes, but the crowd at the ticket counter had no way of knowing this. Steele would establish his post at…
- The Siege of the Scales…utumn of 1897, barely a trail. The Chilkoot was the artery. The police intended to control what flowed through it. The orders had come from Sam Steele, the officer commanding the Mounted Police in the Yukon district. Steele was a man who had built his career on the principle that authority…
- The First Settled Consequence…corded names, occupations, and the dimensions of boats under construction. Their tallies, entered in the patrol diaries that Superintendent Sam Steele had ordered kept at every station along the trail, gave the encampment the character of a census. The Mounties counted because Steele’s reg…