CONTENTS

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I.The Great Lakes. Cleveland to Detroit[13]
II.St. Paul, Winnipeg and Banff; the Wheat Lands of the Far Northwest[20]
III.Banff to Vancouver Across the Rockies and Selkirks[38]
IV.Vancouver and Skagway; Fjords and Forests[52]
V.Skagway, Caribou Crossing and Atlin[75]
VI.The Great Llewellyn or Taku Glacier[109]
VII.Voyaging Down the Mighty Yukon[112]
VIII.Dawson and the Golden Klondike[132]
IX.Men of the Klondike[170]
X.Dog Lore of the North[180]
XI.How the Government Searches for Gold[195]
XII.Seattle, the Future Mistress of the Trade and Commerce of the North[206]
XIII.The Valley of the Willamette[224]
XIV.San Francisco[230]
XV.Los Angeles[249]
XVI.San Francisco and Salt Lake City[260]
XVII.A Broncho-busting Match[282]
XVIII.Colorado and Denver[300]
XIX.Across Nebraska[307]
XX.Along Iowa and into Missouri to St. Louis[314]
Index[333]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Author and His Wife Upon the Trail[Frontispiece.]
The Waterside, Cleveland[15]
Entrance St. Clair Canal[15]
White Bear Lake, St. Paul[31]
Down the Silver Bow—Banff[31]
A Reach of the Fraser River[41]
Big Douglas Fir—Vancouver Park[45]
Victoria, B. C.—The Harbor[49]
Leaving Vancouver[53]
Awaiting Cargo—Vancouver, B. C.[57]
Totem Poles at Ketchikan[61]
Glaciers on Frederick Sound[63]
Approaching Fort Wrangel[67]
The Pier—Fort Wrangel[67]
The Pier—Skagway[71]
Lynn Canal from the Summit of White Pass[71]
Looking Down White Pass[73]
The Summit—White Pass[73]
Railway Train—Skagway[77]
The International Boundary[77]
Caribou Crossing[79]
Early September Snow, Caribou Crossing[79]
A Vista on Lake Marsh[83]
Woodland Along Lake Marsh[83]
On the Trail at Caribou[85]
View Near Caribou Crossing[85]
The Taku River[89]
Lake Atlin[91]
Dogs, Atlin[91]
Atlin Baggage Express[95]
Atlin City Waterworks[95]
Government Mail Crossing Lake Atlin[99]
Miner’s Cabin on Spruce Creek, Atlin Gold Diggings[99]
Finding “Color,” a Good Strike, Otter Creek, B. C.[103]
Sluicing for Gold, Otter Creek, B. C.[103]
An Atlin Gold Digger[105]
Bishop and Mrs. Bompas[113]
Great Llewellyn or Taku Glacier[113]
Fishing for Grayling, White Horse Rapids[117]
Moonlight on Lake Le Barge[119]
Lake Bennett, from Our Car[119]
A Yukon Sunset[123]
The Upper Yukon[123]
A Yukon Coal Mine[125]
Five Finger Rapids on the Yukon[125]
Coming Up the Yukon[129]
The “Sarah” Arriving at Dawson, 1,600 Miles up from St. Michael’s[133]
The Levee, Dawson—Our Steamer[133]
Dawson City, The Yukon—Looking Down[137]
Dawson and Mouth of Klondike River, Looking Up[137]
Second Avenue, Dawson[141]
Dawson—View Down the Yukon[141]
The Cecil—The First Hotel in Dawson[143]
A Private Carriage, Dawson[143]
Dog Corral—The Fastest Team in Dawson[147]
A Potato Patch at Dawson[147]
First Agricultural Fair Held at Dawson, September, 1903[151]
Daily Stage on Bonanza[155]
Discovery Claim on Bonanza of the Klondike[155]
Looking Up the Klondike River[159]
The Author at White Horse Rapids[159]
“Mes Enfants,” Malamute Pups[161]
A Klondike Cabin[161]
On the Yukon[175]
Floating Down the Yukon[175]
Approaching Seattle[181]
With and Without[181]
Malamute Team of Government Mail Carrier, Dawson[187]
Breaking of the Yukon—May 17, 1903[187]
Sun Dogs[189]
Winter Landscape[189]
Lake Bennett[197]
The Height of Land, White Pass[197]
Mt. Ranier or Tacoma[217]
Along the Columbia River[221]
A Big Redwood[235]
Italian Fishing Craft at Santa Cruz[239]
Approaching San Francisco[239]
The Franciscan Garden—Santa Barbara[243]
Our Franciscan Guide[243]
The Sea—Santa Barbara (two views)[245]
Marengo Avenue, Pasadena[251]
Street View, Los Angeles[251]
The Sagebrush and Alkali Desert[263]
The Mormon Temple[267]
The Mormon Tithing House[271]
The Mormon “Lion House”[271]
Great Salt Lake[277]
Nuckolds Putting on the Hoodwink[285]
Nuckolds, “The Broncho Busted”[285]
Grimsby and the Judges[289]
Bunn, Making Rope Bridle[289]
Arizona Moore Up[293]
Arizona Moore[293]
The Crowd at the Broncho-Busting Match[298]
The Dun-colored Devil[298]
On the Great Kanawha[325]
Our Kanawha Garden[327]
Map of Route in the United States[329]
Map of Upper Yukon Basin[331]

In To The Yukon

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THE GREAT LAKES, CLEVELAND TO DETROIT.