Category: Adventure
It was in 1896, before the Klondike boom. We were seated at the table of an excursion steamer, which plied from Seattle northward among the thousand wonderful mountain islands of the Inland Passage. It was a journey replete with brilliant spectacles, through many picturesque f...
Forty Mile Creek is the oldest mining camp in the Yukon country, and the first where coarse gold or "gulch diggings" was found. In the fall of 1886 a prospector by the name of F...
3. CHAPTER III.Upon reaching Lake Lindeman, we found a number of other parties encamped,--men who had come over the trail before us, and had been delaying a short time, for different reasons....
6. CHAPTER VI.The next night we reached that part of the river where Circle City was put down on the map we carried, but not finding it, camped on a gravelly beach beneath a timbered bluff. W...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The next day we broke camp, and floating down the river, soon entered the main range of the Rampart Mountains. They were not high, but picturesque, and the lower parts and the v...
2. CHAPTER II.At this time there was only one building at Dyea--a log house used as a store for trading with the natives, and known by the name of Healy's Post. (Two years afterwards, on retu...
1. CHAPTER I.It was in 1896, before the Klondike boom. We were seated at the table of an excursion steamer, which plied from Seattle northward among the thousand wonderful mountain islands o...
7. CHAPTER VII.The next day, the 21st of August, we loaded up the Skookum again, and dropped away from Circle City with the current. The customs officers were short of rice, but they sent a pa...
9. CHAPTER IX.St. Michael's is the usual port for the Yukon, though seventy miles from its mouth. The Russians had a fort and garrison at this place before they sold the territory to the Unit...
5. CHAPTER V.From Forty Mile we floated down the Yukon again, and in a day's journey camped at the mouth of Mission Creek, not then down on the map. It had received its name from miners who...