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Title: Alaska and the Klondike gold fields : containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; ...
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, A. C
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Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Monroe Book Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ls are the white resident employesof the companies, the collector of customs, several missionaries,and a number of traders. There are several hundred Eskimoson the island. The surface of the country immediately sur-rounding St. Michaels is gently rolling, and in summer it iscovered with a great growth of grass, having more the appear-ance of Nebraska prairies than of an Arctic region. A series ofsix or seven low, cone-shaped hills across the shallow estuaryare extinct volcanoes. In all the landscape there is no timber,nor are there trees anywhere near Behring Sea. At St. Michaels passengers and freight are transferred fromthe ocean liners to the river steamers. These run down thecoast sixty miles to the north mouth of the great Yukon, a riverlarger than the Mississippi and navigable for boats of light draughtfor 2300 miles above its mouth, and there begins the long journeyup stream to Dawson City and the golden placers. The source of tlje Yukon is in the Rocky Mountains and in British
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