Along Alaska's Great River / A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska

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At the Foot of the Chilkoot Pass

FREDERICK SCHWATKA,
LAUREATE OF THE PARIS GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND OF THE IMPERIAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF RUSSIA; HONORARY MEMBER BREMEN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, ETC., ETC., COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION.
Together with the Latest Information on the Klondike Country.
FULLY ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO NEW YORK George M. Hill Company MDCCCC

Copyright, 1898, Geo. M. Hill Co.

These pages narrate the travels, in a popular sense, of an Alaskan exploring expedition. The expedition was organized with seven members at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, and left Portland, Oregon, ascending through the inland passage to Alaska, as far as the Chilkat country. At that point the party employed over three score of the Chilkat Indians, the hardy inhabitants of that ice-bound country, to pack its effects across the glacier-clad pass of the Alaskan coast range of mountains to the headwaters of the Yukon. Here a large raft was constructed, and on this primitive craft, sailing through nearly a hundred and fifty miles of lakes, and shooting a number of rapids, the party floated along the great stream for over thirteen hundred miles; the longest raft journey ever made on behalf of geographical science. The entire river, over two thousand miles, was traversed, the party returning home by Bering Sea, and touching the Aleutian Islands.