To know Alaska is to love her. As one old North-Pacific sea captain once put it,—"A man can get along without the woman he loves if he has to. But he can't get along without Alaska after he has fallen in love with her!"

It is Robert Service, however, who in The Spell of the Yukon has breathed the real spirit of the land:

"Some say God was tired when He made it;
Some say it's a good land to shun;
May be. But there's some as would trade it
For no land on earth—and I'm one!"

W. B. S.

St. Michael, Alaska.

[CONTENTS]

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I.Northward Ho![19]
II.The Land of Tomorrow[30]
III.St. Michael[38]
IV.Northern Lights[46]
V.Great Opportunities[52]
VI.Politics and Government[63]
VII.The Parallel Steel Bars[72]
VIII.Flowers and Birds of the Northland[83]
IX.Mt. McKinley National Park[91]
X.The All-Alaska Sweepstakes[100]
XI.Buried Wealth[115]
XII.The Haunt of the Salmon[126]
XIII.The Eighth Wonder of the World[137]
XIV.The Cities of the Far North[151]
XV.The Native Races[161]
XVI.Social Life in Alaska[197]
XVII.The Prize of the Pacific[210]
XVIII.Alaska and the War[216]
XIX.Alaskan Writers[222]
Conclusion[236]

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