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Title: The scarlet life of Dawson and the roseate dawn of Nome ... Personal experiences and observations of the author
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Vincent, La Belle Brooks- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Klondike River Valley (Yukon) Nomel, Cape. (from old catalog)
Publisher: (San Francisco, Press of Brown, Meese & Craddock)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ance, and a pity for us always, if such conditions con-tinue to exist. I saw the The singing of The Star Spangled Ban- crowd, jjgj. )3y ^ fQ^ voices, followed, when Cap- tain Bill made a stage entrance from the open window uponthe little roof, a la jack-in-the-box. With a boom heshouted,—I tell you boys, I am glad to be here. No onedoubted him, but the sentiment was not reciprocated by thecrowd. He continued with an imitation wild west speech.The crowd hurrahed for the Stars and Stripes, for the Eng-lish flag, for America, for the Queen, for Colonel Steele, andthen scattered to witness some races and contests. They were not The brown canvas coats of the mountedthere. police, and the red coats of the soldiers, were conspicuous only by their absence. The Englishofficials and social lights were busy elsewhere. I thought, on this, the National Holiday of my native land,the land of Freedom, I a helpless prisoner in a Britishdebtors prison! but what I saw and heard were not of myhomeland.
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1. A group of Canadian Northwest Mounted Police. 2. A group of Canadian Soldiers in winter dress.

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