Identifier: inalaskanwildern00gord (find matches)
Title: In the Alaskan wilderness
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927
Subjects: Eskimo languages Alaska -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : The John C. Winston Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rganized government expeditionmay meet with difficulties in Alaska. This report represents the earnest effortsof a small party in unknown regions againstextraordinary obstacles, deserted by guides,caught by winter, deprived of transportationand hampered by scarcity of food.* If I have sought to be explicit in the foregoingstatement it is not because I have a personalinterest in establishing any priority or in claimingany credit whatever in connection with explo-ration and discovery in Alaska or elsewhere. Insuch claims we were in no way interested, andfor this reason we had next to nothing to sayon the subject. I am well aware that the workof exploration is going forward year by yearunder the direction of hardy and competentmen. I have, therefore, been careful to indicatethe precise nature of our work which had nogeographical purpose whatever and which hadreference only to the inhabitants. ♦EXPLORATIONS IN ALASKA, 1899, War Department,Washington, Government Printing Office, 1901. 20
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IN THE ALASKAN WILDERNESS CHAPTER IA Meeting on the Yukon In June of 1907, the ice broke on the Yukonand carried out, according to programme, its irre-sistible spring drive to the sea, leaving that riverfree to navigation for the two thousand fivehundred miles of its length. The little fleet ofsteamers waiting at White Horse, the head ofnavigation, prepared, each in turn, to make itsfirst trip of the season down to Dawson, thefar-famed city of the Great Northwest. Mybrother and I had taken passage on the firstboat and on an early June morning we swungout from the pier at the bright and busy littletown of White Horse that rules the destinies ofthe Canadian Yukon. To make the Yukon trip is an easy matter.From Vancouver the ocean going steamers plythe wonderful inside passage northward for threedays and nights, a thousand miles to Skagway,the terminus of the White Pass Railroad whichruns one hundred miles through very striking 21 mountain scenery to White Horse, the head ofnavigation on

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