The gold fields of the Klondike; fortune seekers' guide to the Yukon region of Alaska and British America; . cumstances, or aloyal sweetheart who waits and watches; all thinking ofsome one on the outside. It is queer that home should beso designated. In Arizona, before the era of railroads,when the only means of communication was by buckboardover the desert to the end of the railroad at Los Angeles,we used to call the trip to San Francisco going on the Yukon they recognized the completeness of theirisolation by saying that one coming to the States isgoing outside. THE DISCOVERER OF B


The gold fields of the Klondike; fortune seekers' guide to the Yukon region of Alaska and British America; . cumstances, or aloyal sweetheart who waits and watches; all thinking ofsome one on the outside. It is queer that home should beso designated. In Arizona, before the era of railroads,when the only means of communication was by buckboardover the desert to the end of the railroad at Los Angeles,we used to call the trip to San Francisco going on the Yukon they recognized the completeness of theirisolation by saying that one coming to the States isgoing outside. THE DISCOVERER OF BONANZA. In Dawson, as in other mining towns, there is the loaferwho has no mine, no home, nothing but a consuming thirst,which he is waiting for some other person to gratify. Tohim, as a boon, comes the miner, usually an old-timer, whohas something besides room in his dust sack and who iswilling to set em up. The latter goes from saloon tosaloon with quite a retinue. One of the most generous ofthese producers is said to be George McCormack, ownerof the Discovery on Bonanza Creek, He is a man of some r^~. s : 3* 40& 0 f j


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