Klondike gold rush funny comic strip

Looney Tunes animated cartoon short directed by Friz Freleng. The story begins with an old man named Louie slouching by a river, washing the gold he has in a pan. Sam suddenly appears and, using his guns and his reputation, scares Louie off and claims the gold. When he sees how little he has actually stolen from the old prospector, Sam says, "Picking's mighty slim around here, hardly no reward for a day's work. While Sam complains about this "It's getting so a man can't earn a dishonest living!

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Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy.

On the set of The Gold Rush. Charles Chaplin made The Gold Rush out of the most unlikely sources for comedy. The first idea came to him when he was viewing some stereoscope pictures of the Klondike gold rush, and was particularly struck by the image of an endless line of prospectors snaking up the Chilkoot Pass, the gateway to the gold fields. At the same time he happened to read a book about the Donner Party Disaster of , when a party of immigrants, snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, were reduced to eating their own moccasins and the corpses of their dead comrades.