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...Canadian journalist William Jarvis' gently fictionalized work recounts many of the countless fascinating tales of the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada's Yukon. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt)...

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...naamd Buck. Zijn oer-instincten keren terug na een reeks van gebeurtenissen die ertoe leiden dat hij een sledehond wordt in de Yukon in de 19e-eeuwse Klondike Gold Rush, waar sledehonden werden gekocht tegen zeer royale prijzen....

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...Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His first novel, The Spoilers, was based on a true story of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, which Beac...

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...ing in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost....

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...mship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wa... ...eserver. And this was the manner of dog Buck was in the fall of 1897, when the Klondike strike dragged men from all the world into the frozen North. B... ...from safe perches on top the wall they prepared to watch the performance. Buck rushed at the splintering wood, sinking his teeth into it, surging and ... ...im down. After a particularly fierce blow, he crawled to his feet, too dazed to rush. He staggered limply about, the blood flowing from nose and mouth a... ...ight pulled into the huge camp at the head of Lake Bennett, where thousands of gold seekers were building boats against the break up of the ice in the... ...or this was the mail train, carrying word from the world to the men who sought gold under the shadow of the Pole. Buck did not like it, but he bore up... ...served an interval of loafing. But so many were the men who had rushed into the Klondike, and so many were the sweethearts, wives, and kin that had not... ...de it. I tell you straight, I wouldn’t risk my carcass on that ice for all the gold in Alaska.” “That’s because you’re not a fool, I suppose,” said Ha...

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...g when I was going over a mined culvert, and there was talk of giving me a gold watch at the time. To hell with their gold watches! I want ordinary ju... ...gave a horse, a barrel of tallow, an ounce of silver, and half an ounce of gold dust. Ah, those were days. That was a gay life. This”—he made a compre... ...same principles will apply to getting grain out of the earth as to getting gold. Oh, let him go on and see where he brings up. That’s right, there’s y... ...lroad lands about Bonneville had been thrown open, there had been almost a rush in the matter of settlement, and Broderson, Annixter, Derrick, and Ost... ...ce the orchestra swung off into a march—the Grand March. There was a great rush to secure “partners.” Young Vacca, still going the rounds, was pushed ... ...blood streaming from her forehead. The crowd, shrieking, melted before her rush. An old man was thrown down and trampled. The buckskin trod upon the d... ...ction; 244 The Octopus now a certain bearded poet, recently back from the Klondike; now a decayed musician who had been ejected from a young ladies’ ...

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...f and smelled of the outside ocean. Out beyond them to westward opened the Golden Gate, a bleak vista of gray-green water roughened with white-caps. “... ...n but one thing. The wind was freshen- ing from the nor’west, the ebb tide rushing out to meet the ocean like a mill-race, at every moment the Golden ... ...b tide rushing out to meet the ocean like a mill-race, at every moment the Golden Gate opened out wider, and within two minutes after the time of the ... ...ooner was beating out to sea through the Middle Channel. Once clear of the Golden Gate, she stood over toward the Cliff House, then on the next tack c... ...ing eyes. “Gawd strike me,” he murmured, “ain’t she a daisy? It’s a little Klondike. Come on, son.” The two went down the ratlines, and Kitchell order... ... into the cabin. The moment the door was opened suffocating billows of gas rushed out and beat them back. On the third trial the Captain stag- gered o... ...osed down upon the pair. “It’s not much use, Moran,” he muttered. “They’ll rush us in a minute.” “But the ambergris is mine—is mine,” she answered, ne...

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...rail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life, 177 -- The Wit of Porportuk, 201 -- The Apostate, 230 -- To Build a Fire, 254 -- South of the Slot, 274 -- The Chinago, 295 -- A Piece of Steak, 313 -- Mauki, 336 -- Koolau the Leper, 354 -- ...

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.... 117 Bˆ atard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 All Gold Canyon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Love of Lif... ... snapped the case and turned away, but not quick enough to hide the restrained rush of tears. Malemute Kid led him to a bunk and bade him turn in. “Ca... ...t her with an axe. The dogs had broken the iron rule of their masters and were rushing the grub. He joined the is sue with his rifle reversed, and the... ...e word, the spirit for the letter. When the world rang with the tale of Arctic gold, and the lure of the North gripped the heartstrings of men, Carter... ...arty, except its plans. Even its goal, like that of all other parties, was the Klondike. But the route it had mapped out to attain that goal took away... ...adow! It was exactly midday. They jerked their heads hurriedly to the south. A golden rim peeped over the mountain’s snowy shoulder, smiled upon them ... ...he men had expected some sort of a lay over in which to rest up; besides, this Klondike was a new section of the Northland, and they had wished to see... ...es. He remembered how he had abandoned his own father on an upper reach of the Klondike one winter, the winter before the missionary came with his tal... ... of the priests stirring the people to anger. “Worst of it is they ’ll come in rushes,” Bill complained as they walked back with shouldered axes. “And...

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...de, when a faint far cry arose on the still air. It soared upward with a swift rush, till it reached its topmost note, where it persisted, palpitant a... ... the sun warm the southern horizon, but it even thrust its upper rim, pale and golden, above the sky line. He received it as a sign. The days were gro... ... find the howling real. There was a great snarling and yelping. The wolves were rushing him. They were all about him and upon him. The teeth of one had... ...breath he drew. In the end, one day, fear and obedience were swept away by the rush of life, and the cub straddled and sprawled toward the entrance. U... ...ood, and unprecedented excitement. It was the summer of 1898, and thousands of gold hunters were going up the Yukon to Dawson and the Klondike. Still ... ... 1898, and thousands of gold hunters were going up the Yukon to Dawson and the Klondike. Still hundreds of miles from their goal, nevertheless many of... ...e from the other side of the world. Here Gray Beaver stopped. A whisper of the gold rush had reached his ears, and he had come with several bales of f... ... arrived in the land. With him came the first bulldog that had ever entered the Klondike. That this dog and White Fang should come together was inevita... ...orked his master’s other dogs. Different from the Mackenzie toboggans were the Klondike sleds with runners under them. And different was the method of...

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...DED SOLDIER.................................................................................................................................. 168 THE GOLDEN ARM .............................................................................................................................................. 170 GENERAL WASHINGTON?S NEGRO BODY-SERVANT ..............................

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............................................. ....................... 168 THE GOLDEN ARM ................................................................... ...it was dizzying, it was dazzling. Everything Aleck touched turned to fairy gold, and heaped itself glitter ing toward the firmament. Millions upon mi... ...il, Ocean Cables, Diluted Telegraph, and all the rest, and winding up with Klondike, De Beers, Tammany Graft, and Shady Privileges in the Post office ... ...s being gratefully welcomed and blest in papal Rome and decorated with the Golden Rose which she had so honorably earned, what was he doing? Breaking ... ...the nurse’s voice rang wildly out, “The nursery’s on fire!” and the master rushed away in that direction, and my other bones were saved. The pain was ... ...ood. For half an hour there was a commotion downstairs, and shoutings, and rushing footsteps, and then there was quiet again. Quiet for some minutes, ... ...it; it is a part of his genius; he cannot help it; he never interrupts the rush of his narrative to make in troductions. It could not escape Ambulini...