Dawson City Seven

Dawson City Seven by Reddick, Don. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780864921581.

On December 19, 1904, the upstart Dawson City Nuggets began their 4,000 mile trek to wrest the Stanley Cup from the Ottawa Silver Seven. Twenty-five days later, after trudging 350 miles behind their dog teams, lurching and rolling aboard the SS Romano, and whiling away endless days on the CPR, the rubber-legged, travel-worn players staggered into Ottawas Union Station. They lost their first game 9-2, but the feisty Nuggets believed they could win the second game and then take the Stanley Cup home to Dawson City forever. The true story of this 1905 challenge for the Stanley Cup is only part of Don Reddicks funny and moving novel about the most adventurous team that ever took the ice. Into the history of the gold rush town, the men and the games, Reddick weaves the fictional adventures of Boston Mason, the son of a Confederate soldier, who travels from his Massachusetts farm to seek his fortune in the Klondike. When Masons skating prowess earns him a berth on the Dawson City Nuggets, the past springs to life.