In To
The Yukon

BY
WILLIAM SEYMOUR EDWARDS

WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS
AND MAPS

SECOND EDITION

CINCINNATI
The Robert Clarke Company
1905

COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY
William Seymour Edwards

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER, 1904
REPRINTED JUNE 1905

Press of The Robert Clarke Company
CINCINNATI, U. S. A.

DEDICATION.
TO THE COMRADE WHOSE CHARMING COMPANIONSHIP
ADDED SO GREATLY TO THE DELIGHTS OF MY
TWO MONTHS’ OUTING, THIS LITTLE
VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED.

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

These letters were not written for publication originally. They were written for the home circle and the few friends who might care to read them. They are the brief narrative of daily journeyings and experiences during a very delightful two months of travel into the far north and along the Pacific slope of our continent. Some of the letters were afterwards published in the daily press. They are now put into this little book and a few of the Kodak snapshots taken are given in half-tone prints.

We were greeted with much friendliness along the way and were the recipients of many courtesies. None showed us greater attention than the able and considerate officials of the Pacific Coast S. S. Co., the Alaska S. S. Co. and the White Pass and Yukon Railway Co., including Mr. Kekewich, managing Director of the London Board, and Mr. Newell, Vice-President of the Company.

At Atlin and Dawson we met and made many friends, and we would here reiterate to them, one and all, our warm appreciation of their hospitalities.

William Seymour Edwards.

Charleston-Kanawha, West Virginia,

August, 1904.

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