Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heart of the North (Warner Bros.). The Arctic Queen is steaming up the Yukon River with a shipment of gold and furs. And then? Bandits in fur caps remove its cargo. And then? The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who keep their coats on even when paddling canoes, contrive to catch the bandits...
...little whooping in the Multnomah bar (see cut), which, like other Oregon taprooms, serves no hard liquor, were such diverse sourdoughs as Alaska's Episcopal Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe, Henry Macaulay, first mayor of Dawson, Editor Frank J. Cotter of Seattle's Alaska Weekly, scores of old Yukon prospectors, storekeepers, mail clerks...
...YUKON VOYAGE-Walter R. Curtin- Caxton Printers...
...fine October morning 40 years ago, the steamer Yukoner, bound upriver for Dawson with passengers and supplies, tied up for the winter in a small tributary of the Yukon, 1,400 miles from Dawson. The weather was getting cold, one of the Yukoners boilers had blown up, and she was in danger of being crushed in the ice if she remained in the river. For the captain, crew, passengers and the general manager of the company operating the Yukoner, her failure to reach Dawson was a catastrophe; in those gold-rush days a Yukon River steamer paid for itself...
...September 1903, a tribunal of three U. S. citizens, three Britishers met in London to settle the boundary between Alaska and Canada, agreed on the 14151 Meridian for the Alaska-Yukon line...