Title: The Spoilers
Description: Beach's first novel, it is about a pair of gold prospectors facing the threat of having their mine stolen by corrupt government officials, and was based on his personal experience.  Of course there is a strong romantic thread and the book has been made into a film several <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spoilers>times</a>.
Subjects: Gold miners, Gold mines and mining, Prospecting, Fiction, Fiction, westerns, Fiction, historical, Alaska, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, History, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Westerns, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Classics, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure