A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves..


The first time I encountered The Silver Horde, its nitrate shimmer felt like inhaling crushed ice laced with iodine—an unsettling jolt that leaves the throat raw and the pupils pinned. Nearly a century after its premiere, Rex Beach’s salmon-saga still thrashes with the same barbaric vitality that once impelled flapper...

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" The first time I encountered The Silver Horde, its nitrate shimmer felt like inhaling crushed ice laced with iodine—an unsettling jolt that leaves the throat raw and the pupils pinned. Nearly a century after its premiere, Rex Beach’s salmon-saga still thrashes with the same barbaric vitality that once impelled flappers and shell-shocked veterans to crane their necks in ornate movie palaces. You don’t merely watch this film; you gut it, sluice it, and hang it to dry under the aurora of your own ..."
J.E. Nash, Rex Beach, Laurence Trimble
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