. A woman who went to Alaska . lowed by a balky fellow or ashirk! The consequences were, at times, undercertain circumstances, almost too serious to be re-counted in this story, at least this can be said of theemphatic language used by the packers in such pre-dicament. One warm, bright day soon after my arrival inDawson, and when order had been brought out ofchaos in the scow — our home—I went to call uponan old friend, formerly of Seattle. Carrie N. wasthree or four years younger than myself, had been anurse for a time after the death of her husband, butgrew tired of that work, and decided in
. A woman who went to Alaska . lowed by a balky fellow or ashirk! The consequences were, at times, undercertain circumstances, almost too serious to be re-counted in this story, at least this can be said of theemphatic language used by the packers in such pre-dicament. One warm, bright day soon after my arrival inDawson, and when order had been brought out ofchaos in the scow — our home—I went to call uponan old friend, formerly of Seattle. Carrie N. wasthree or four years younger than myself, had been anurse for a time after the death of her husband, butgrew tired of that work, and decided in the winterof 1897 and 1898 to go into the Klondyke. A partyof forty men and women going to Dawson wa5made up in Seattle, and she joined them. Forweeks they were busily engaged in making theirpreparations. Living near me, as she did at thetime, I was often with Carrie N. and was muchinterested in her movements and accompanied herto the Alaskan steamer the day she sailed. It wasthe little ship Alki upon which she went away,. A KLONDIKE CLAIM A Woman Who Went—To Alaska 33 and it was crowded with passengers and loadedheavily with freight for the trip to Dyea, as Skag-way and the dreaded White Pass had been voted outof the plans of the Seattle party of forty. Now in Dawson I called upon Carrie N. eighteenmonths later, and heard her tell the story of hertrip to the Klondyke. They had landed, she said,at Dyea from the Alki with their many tons ofprovisions and supplies, all of which had to bedumped upon the beach where no dock or wharfhad ever been constructed. Here with dog-teamsand sleds, a few horses and men packers, theiriupplies were hauled up the mountain as far asSheep Camp, some ten miles up the mountainside. It was early springtime and the snow lay deepupon the mountains and in the gorges, which, in thevicinity of Chilkoot Pass at the summit of the moun-tain are frightfully high and precipitous. The weather was not cold, and the moving of thislarge party of forty perso
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