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قراءة كتاب Golden Alaska A Complete Account to Date of the Yukon Valley
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Golden Alaska A Complete Account to Date of the Yukon Valley
GOLDEN ALASKA
A COMPLETE ACCOUNT TO DATE
OF THE
Yukon Valley
ITS HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, MINERAL AND OTHER
RESOURCES, OPPORTUNITIES AND
MEANS OF ACCESS
BY
,
(Formerly with the Hayden Survey in the West)
AUTHOR OF
"Knocking 'Round the Rockies," "The Crest of the Continent,"
etc., and General Editor of Rand, McNally &
Co.'s "Guide Books."
Chicago and New York:
RAND, McNALLY & COMPANY.
1897.
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Mines on the Blue River.
For prospectus and particulars, address,
W. L. Boyd & Co., 6 WALL STREET,
NEW YORK.
Copyright, 1897, by Rand, McNally & Co.
INTRODUCTION.
To make "a book about the Klondike" so shortly after that word first burst upon the ears of a surprised world, would be the height of literary impudence, considering how remote and incommunicado that region is, were it not the public is intensely curious to know whatever can be said authentically in regard to it. "The Klondike," it must be remembered, is, in reality, a very limited district—only one small river valley in a gold-bearing territory twice as large as New England; and it came into prominence so recently that there is really little to tell in respect to it because nothing has had time to happen and be communicated to the outside world. But in its neighborhood, and far north and south of it, are other auriferous rivers, creeks and bars, and mountains filled with untried quartz-ledges, in respect to which information has been accumulating for some years, and where at any moment "strikes" may be made that shall equal or eclipse the wealth of the Klondike placers. It is possible, then, to give here