"Yukon river" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the extreme west Klondike. I shall never forget the gold fever which seized adventurers in nearly all countries when it was known that the precious metal occurred in large quantities in the gravel and sand-beds on the banks of the Yukon River. I was one of them myself. Men rushed wildly off to get there in time and stake out small claims in the auriferous soil. What a wild life! How we suffered! We had to pay a shilling for a biscuit and a ...
— From Pole to Pole - A Book for Young People • Sven Anders Hedin
... certain village on the Yukon River there once lived four brothers and a sister. The sister's companion was the youngest boy, of whom she was very fond. This boy was lazy and could never be made to work. The other brothers were great hunters and in the fall they hunted at sea, for they ...
— A Treasury of Eskimo Tales • Clara Kern Bayliss
... been accomplished (or even attempted), I was unable to benefit by the experience of previous explorers. From New York we travelled to Vancouver, thence across the now famous Chilkoot Pass to the Great Lakes and down the Yukon River to the sea, crossing Bering Straits in an American revenue cutter to the Siberian settlement of melancholy memory. From here I hoped to reach the nearest Russian outpost, Anadyrsk, by dog-sled, proceeding thence along the western shores of the ...
— From Paris to New York by Land • Harry de Windt
... the Kutcha Kutchin, Yukon River. 6 ll. folio. Procured from Mr. Hardesty, who had resided among these Indians ...
— Catalogue Of Linguistic Manuscripts In The Library Of The Bureau Of Ethnology. (1881 N 01 / 1879-1880 (Pages 553-578)) • James Constantine Pilling
... made brief notes of their course throughout the remainder of their trip to the Yukon River, which are given here ...
— Young Alaskans in the Far North • Emerson Hough |
