Klondike: the Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899
“Weare on her seventeen-hundred-mile voyage to the sea, white wood smoke erupting from her twin black stacks. Two days ahead of her chugged the A.C. Company’s ungainly little Alice, a tiny smudge on the leaden expanse of the river. The brief sub-Arctic spring had yielded to summer, and the hills along the river were ablaze with crimson drifts of fireweed, accented by the blues of lupins and the yellows of arnicas and daisies. The air was heady with the pungent incense of balm of Gilead. Robins w...arbled among the birches, woodpeckers drummed against the spruce bark, moosebirds and chicken hawks wheeled and hovered in the sky. But, save for the occasional Indian or stray woodcutter, the two awkward little riverboats represented the only human movement along most of the Yukon, for the river country had long since been sucked dry of men by the news of the strike. In three months all this would change again, for the Alice and the We are were heading for civilization each loaded with a single cargo: gold.There was gold in suitcases and leather grips, gold in boxes and packing-cases, gold in belts and pokes of caribou hide, gold in jam jars, medicine bottles, and tomato cans, and gold in blankets held by straps and cord, so heavy it took two men to hoist each one aboard.MoreLess
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