. History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time. forniamigration of 1849. Latter-day Argonauts, not dismayed bythe untold dangers and hardships in store,toiled up the Yukon, or, swarming over theprecipitous Chilcoot Pass, braved, too oftenat cost of life, the boiling rapids to bepassed in descending the Upper Yukon tothe gold fields. Later the easier and well-wooded White Pass was found, traversed,at length, by a railroad. In October, 1898,the Cape Nome coast, north of the Yukonmouth, uncovered its riches, whereupontreasure-seekers turned thither their
. History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time. forniamigration of 1849. Latter-day Argonauts, not dismayed bythe untold dangers and hardships in store,toiled up the Yukon, or, swarming over theprecipitous Chilcoot Pass, braved, too oftenat cost of life, the boiling rapids to bepassed in descending the Upper Yukon tothe gold fields. Later the easier and well-wooded White Pass was found, traversed,at length, by a railroad. In October, 1898,the Cape Nome coast, north of the Yukonmouth, uncovered its riches, whereupontreasure-seekers turned thither their atten-tion, even from the Yukon. Little lawlessness pestered the gold set-tlements. The Dominion promptly des-patched to Dawson a body of her famousmounted police. Our Government, moretardily, made its authority felt from , near, the Yukon mouth, all the 196 j:.\i\\xsjon [1897 way to the Canadian border. On June 6,1900, Alaska was constituted a civil andjudicial district, with a governor, whosefunctions were those of a territorial ltov-ernor. When necessary the miners them-. Rush of Miners to the City of Caches at the Summit of Chilcoot Pa-^. selves formed tribunals and meted out arough-and-ready justice. The rush of miners to the middle Yukongold region, which, together with certainports and waters on the way thither, w ■claimed by both the United States and j mr. Mckinleys administration 197 Great Britain, made acute the question ofthe true boundary between Alaskan andBritish territory. In 1825 Great Britain and Russia, thelatter then owning Alaska, agreed by treatyto separate their respective possessions bya line commencing at the southernmostpoint of Prince of Wales Island and runningalong Portland Channel to the continentalcoast at 56 degrees north latitude. Northof that degree the boundary was to runalong mountain summits parallel to thecoast until it intersected the 141st meridianwest longitude, which was then to be fol-lowed to the frozen ocean.
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