Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, doughty Canadian and U. S. clamberers under the leadership of Captain A. H. McCarthy, British-Columbian rancher, returned from a successful clamber to the pinnacle of Mount Logan (in the southwestern corner of the Province of Yukon, Canada...
...Amazon (4,000). Nile (3,600), Yangtse (3,400), Yenisei (3,300), Mississippi (3,160), Missouri (3,000), Lena (3,000), Congo (3,000), Niger (3,000), Obi (2,700), Hoangho (2,600), Amur (2,500), Parana (2,450), Volga (2,400), Mackenzie (2,300), La Plata (2,300), Yukon (2,000), Madeira (2,000), Arkansas (2,000), Rio del Norte (1,800), St. Lawrence (1,800), Sao Francisco...
...Provinces: Quebec, Manitoba, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Northwest Territories...
...Shooting of Dan McGrew. Another unconscious burlesque. Robert W. Service's poem, which is alternative to Gunga Din for insistent reciters, has been thrown together on the screen in just the way that might be expected. The Yukon episode, which forms the poem, has been prefaced by incidents in a South Sea dance hall and a Broadway cabaret, from which the greatest pleasure is derived when the cabaret burns down?but without the loss of the chief performer, Barbara La Marr. She plays the lady known as Lou, who runs away with the gambler Dan into the Klondike where...
...Dust Heap. A Canadian-Northwest melodrama in which the very scenery gets up and acts. In a brothel on the Yukon, the roof pulsates while two men struggle on it, the chimney disgorges a handcuffed hero, a thunderbolt comes right into the room and wrecks everything but the heroine's marcel waves, glass crashes, beams fall, audiences quake. On the opening night, the people sitting in the first row dodged...