CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I.The Trip to Dyea[9]
II.Over the Chilkoot Pass[35]
III.The Lakes and the Yukon to Forty Mile [65]
IV.The Forty Mile Diggings[109]
V.The American Creek Diggings[156]
VI.The Birch Creek Diggings[161]
VII.The Mynook Creek Diggings[207]
VIII.The Lower Yukon[229]
IX.St. Michael's and San Francisco[264]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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"We of the Flannel Shirt and the Unblacked Boot" [Frontispiece]
An Alaskan Genealogical Tree[12]
Bacon, Lord of Alaska[21]
Lynn Canal[31]
Alaskan Women and Children[40]
Alaskan Indians and House[63]
Shooting the White Horse Rapids[93]
Talking it Over[98]
Alaska Humpback Salmon, Male and Female[107]
Washing Gravel in Sluice-Boxes[131]
"Tracking" a Boat Upstream[137]
A "Cache"[140]
Native Dogs[153]
On the Tramp Again[165]
Hog'em Junction Road-House[171]
On Hog'em Gulch[177]
Custom House at Circle City[190]
The Break-up of the Ice on the Yukon[213]
A Yukon Canoe[230]
Indian Fish-traps[231]
In a Tent Beneath Spruce Trees[239]
Three-hatch Skin Boat, or Bidarka[261]
Eskimo Houses at St. Michael's[265]
A Native Doorway[266]
The Captured Whale[271]

The author wishes to express his indebtedness to Messrs. A. H. Brooks, F. C. Schrader, A. Beverly Smith, and the United States Geological Survey, for the use of photographs.