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...Klondike Fever, by Pierre Berton. There are more nuggets in this book than most of the sourdoughs took from the Yukon...
...Yukon Troubadour...
...Thank you for your tribute to Robert Service [Sept. 22]. An old "ex-Yukon" patient in a Nova Scotia hospital once told me he had lived in a tent next to Bob Service...
...reassembled all the familiar and unfamiliar characters of the Bonanza and El Dorado days, missing no nugget of color and adventure. A squaw man named George Washington ("Siwash George") Carmack staked the first big claim on Aug. 17, 1896, a day still celebrated in Yukon territory. There it was, "lying thick between the flaky slabs of rock like cheese in a sandwich." Charley Anderson bought a claim when drunk for $800, tried to get his money back when sober and could not. Out of it came $1,000,000 and his lifelong nickname, the Lucky Swede. Soon the world outside...
...short-wave radio voice belonged to an Alaskan schoolteacher doubling as practical nurse in the remote hamlet of Marshall on the Yukon River. The doctor was William Henry Brownlee Jr., 37, making his rounds among the 10,000 people who depend on his hospital at Bethel (pop. 1,000). Radio is the only way he can do it; his territory embraces 50,000 sq. mi.-bigger than New York State...