THE GREAT GOLD RUSH
PREFACE
There is a freemasonry among Klondikers which rules that no tales shall
be told out of school. If, therefore, this were an historical novel, if
I were telling tales and seeking to escape censure by the subterfuge of
changing names, I could hardly succeed. Let me take the case of Poo-Bah,
for instance. The reader with a knowledge of the early days of Dawson
accepting the story as historical, would fix as the original any one of
half a dozen men indecently caricatured. But if he is told the character
is a composite one, that it is the personification of Dawson graft, or,
in other words, that it is the sum of a merger, he will understand and,
I think, make no complaint.
Otherwise the story may be accepted as the author's best effort to
convey a true account of the different phases of the world's most
remarkable stampede. The stories of corruption among the officials in
Dawson are those which a visitor would have heard on every hand, and at
the present time there are many old-timers in the Yukon who will tell
tales similar to the incidents I have introduced in my story.
When one of my characters speaks of the Dawson officials as petty
larceny thieves and highway robbers, it is to be understood to be a
sample of the phraseology in vogue at the time.
The different types of prospector I have attempted to portray are those
I have met, lived with, and mixed with. Should it appear I have given
too much space to the humble economies of the miner's life, I shall
advance as my excuse the lack of our literature in this particular.
I have also made a humble attempt to establish the respectability of the
miner. So much has been written to compromise him, and so many
imaginations have drawn lurid pictures of his morals, I feel it his due.
In a general way the reader may accept anything in my story which has
none other than an historical interest as being accurate.
I am indebted to the Rev. Archdeacon Macdonald, now of Winnipeg, for the
story of his first discovery of gold. For the story of the discovery of
Franklin Gulch I am indebted to Mr. William Hartz, who also furnished
the accounts of the finding of gold in the Stewart River. These accounts
have never before been written.
W. H. P. J.
TORONTO, CANADA.
_January_ 1913.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE FORTUNE-SEEKERS. 1
II. JOHN BERWICK 11
III. THE BEGINNING OF YUKON 21
IV. SOCIETY IN ALASKA 30
V. SOAPY'S LITTLE GAME 38
VI. HITTING THE TRAIL 48
VII. HUGH'S PHILOSOPHY 62
VIII. OVER THE SUMMIT 71
IX. STORM AND STRESS 80
X. AN EMPIRE'S OUTPOST 90
XI. ANOTHER PASS 95
XII. A NEW PARTNER 107
XIII. THE DANCE 115
XIV. A LONG SHOT 126
XV. REVELATION 133
XVI. A STREAM OF HISTORY 137
XVII. DAWSON 149
XVIII. POO-BAH! 158
XIX. GRAFT 170
XX. A LOTTERY 182
XXI. THE PEELS' HOSPITAL 194
XXII. THE LAST STRAW 201
XXIII. REVOLUTION 214
XXIV. WITHIN THE BARRACKS 223
XXV. RECRUITING 230
XXVI. LOCATED 236
XXVII. THE WOOD-PILE 244
XXVIII. A COUNCIL OF WAR 251
XXIX. STONY GROUND 257
XXX. ON THE SCENT 265
XXXI. AN ODIOUS DILEMMA 274
XXXII. A DERELICT 280
XXXIII. TRIBUTE 286
XXXIV. NO SURRENDER 294
XXXV. THE MAN WITH THE POUCH 299
XXXVI. AFTER THE CRISIS 307
XXXVII. OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS 313
XXXVIII. REUNION 319
XXXIX. RETROSPECTION 325
XL. THE HAPPY ENDING 331
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There is a freemasonry among Klondikers which rules that no tales shall
be told out of school. If, therefore, this were an historical novel, if
I were telling tales and seeking to escape censure by the subterfuge of
changing names, I could hardly succeed. Let me take the case of Poo-Bah,
for instance. The reader with a knowledge of the early days of Dawson
accepting the story as historical, would fix as the original any one of
half a dozen men indecently caricatured. But if he is told the character
is a composite one, that it is the personification of Dawson graft, or,
in other words, that it is the sum of a merger, he will understand and,
I think, make no complaint.
Otherwise the story may be accepted as the author's best effort to
convey a true account of the different phases of the world's most
remarkable stampede. The stories of corruption among the officials in
Dawson are those which a visitor would have heard on every hand, and at
the present time there are many old-timers in the Yukon who will tell
tales similar to the incidents I have introduced in my story.
When one of my characters speaks of the Dawson officials as petty
larceny thieves and highway robbers, it is to be understood to be a
sample of the phraseology in vogue at the time.
The different types of prospector I have attempted to portray are those
I have met, lived with, and mixed with. Should it appear I have given
too much space to the humble economies of the miner's life, I shall
advance as my excuse the lack of our literature in this particular.
I have also made a humble attempt to establish the respectability of the
miner. So much has been written to compromise him, and so many
imaginations have drawn lurid pictures of his morals, I feel it his due.
In a general way the reader may accept anything in my story which has
none other than an historical interest as being accurate.
I am indebted to the Rev. Archdeacon Macdonald, now of Winnipeg, for the
story of his first discovery of gold. For the story of the discovery of
Franklin Gulch I am indebted to Mr. William Hartz, who also furnished
the accounts of the finding of gold in the Stewart River. These accounts
have never before been written.
W. H. P. J.
TORONTO, CANADA.
_January_ 1913.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE FORTUNE-SEEKERS. 1
II. JOHN BERWICK 11
III. THE BEGINNING OF YUKON 21
IV. SOCIETY IN ALASKA 30
V. SOAPY'S LITTLE GAME 38
VI. HITTING THE TRAIL 48
VII. HUGH'S PHILOSOPHY 62
VIII. OVER THE SUMMIT 71
IX. STORM AND STRESS 80
X. AN EMPIRE'S OUTPOST 90
XI. ANOTHER PASS 95
XII. A NEW PARTNER 107
XIII. THE DANCE 115
XIV. A LONG SHOT 126
XV. REVELATION 133
XVI. A STREAM OF HISTORY 137
XVII. DAWSON 149
XVIII. POO-BAH! 158
XIX. GRAFT 170
XX. A LOTTERY 182
XXI. THE PEELS' HOSPITAL 194
XXII. THE LAST STRAW 201
XXIII. REVOLUTION 214
XXIV. WITHIN THE BARRACKS 223
XXV. RECRUITING 230
XXVI. LOCATED 236
XXVII. THE WOOD-PILE 244
XXVIII. A COUNCIL OF WAR 251
XXIX. STONY GROUND 257
XXX. ON THE SCENT 265
XXXI. AN ODIOUS DILEMMA 274
XXXII. A DERELICT 280
XXXIII. TRIBUTE 286
XXXIV. NO SURRENDER 294
XXXV. THE MAN WITH THE POUCH 299
XXXVI. AFTER THE CRISIS 307
XXXVII. OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS 313
XXXVIII. REUNION 319
XXXIX. RETROSPECTION 325
XL. THE HAPPY ENDING 331
THE GREAT GOLD RUSH
PREFACE
There is a freemasonry among Klondikers which rules that no tales shall
be told out of school. If, therefore, this were an historical novel, if
I were telling tales and seeking to escape censure by the subterfuge of
changing names, I could hardly succeed. Let me take the case of Poo-Bah,
for instance. The reader with a knowledge of the early days of Dawson
accepting the story as historical, would fix as the original any one of
half a dozen men indecently caricatured. But if he is told the character
is a composite one, that it is the personification of Dawson graft, or,
in other words, that it is the sum of a merger, he will understand and,
I think, make no complaint.
Otherwise the story may be accepted as the author's best effort to
convey a true account of the different phases of the world's most
remarkable stampede. The stories of corruption among the officials in
Dawson are those which a visitor would have heard on every hand, and at
the present time there are many old-timers in the Yukon who will tell
tales similar to the incidents I have introduced in my story.
When one of my characters speaks of the Dawson officials as petty
larceny thieves and highway robbers, it is to be understood to be a
sample of the phraseology in vogue at the time.
The different types of prospector I have attempted to portray are those
I have met, lived with, and mixed with. Should it appear I have given
too much space to the humble economies of the miner's life, I shall
advance as my excuse the lack of our literature in this particular.
I have also made a humble attempt to establish the respectability of the
miner. So much has been written to compromise him, and so many
imaginations have drawn lurid pictures of his morals, I feel it his due.
In a general way the reader may accept anything in my story which has
none other than an historical interest as being accurate.
I am indebted to the Rev. Archdeacon Macdonald, now of Winnipeg, for the
story of his first discovery of gold. For the story of the discovery of
Franklin Gulch I am indebted to Mr. William Hartz, who also furnished
the accounts of the finding of gold in the Stewart River. These accounts
have never before been written.
W. H. P. J.
TORONTO, CANADA.
_January_ 1913.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE FORTUNE-SEEKERS. 1
II. JOHN BERWICK 11
III. THE BEGINNING OF YUKON 21
IV. SOCIETY IN ALASKA 30
V. SOAPY'S LITTLE GAME 38
VI. HITTING THE TRAIL 48
VII. HUGH'S PHILOSOPHY 62
VIII. OVER THE SUMMIT 71
IX. STORM AND STRESS 80
X. AN EMPIRE'S OUTPOST 90
XI. ANOTHER PASS 95
XII. A NEW PARTNER 107
XIII. THE DANCE 115
XIV. A LONG SHOT 126
XV. REVELATION 133
XVI. A STREAM OF HISTORY 137
XVII. DAWSON 149
XVIII. POO-BAH! 158
XIX. GRAFT 170
XX. A LOTTERY 182
XXI. THE PEELS' HOSPITAL 194
XXII. THE LAST STRAW 201
XXIII. REVOLUTION 214
XXIV. WITHIN THE BARRACKS 223
XXV. RECRUITING 230
XXVI. LOCATED 236
XXVII. THE WOOD-PILE 244
XXVIII. A COUNCIL OF WAR 251
XXIX. STONY GROUND 257
XXX. ON THE SCENT 265
XXXI. AN ODIOUS DILEMMA 274
XXXII. A DERELICT 280
XXXIII. TRIBUTE 286
XXXIV. NO SURRENDER 294
XXXV. THE MAN WITH THE POUCH 299
XXXVI. AFTER THE CRISIS 307
XXXVII. OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS 313
XXXVIII. REUNION 319
XXXIX. RETROSPECTION 325
XL. THE HAPPY ENDING 331
There is a freemasonry among Klondikers which rules that no tales shall
be told out of school. If, therefore, this were an historical novel, if
I were telling tales and seeking to escape censure by the subterfuge of
changing names, I could hardly succeed. Let me take the case of Poo-Bah,
for instance. The reader with a knowledge of the early days of Dawson
accepting the story as historical, would fix as the original any one of
half a dozen men indecently caricatured. But if he is told the character
is a composite one, that it is the personification of Dawson graft, or,
in other words, that it is the sum of a merger, he will understand and,
I think, make no complaint.
Otherwise the story may be accepted as the author's best effort to
convey a true account of the different phases of the world's most
remarkable stampede. The stories of corruption among the officials in
Dawson are those which a visitor would have heard on every hand, and at
the present time there are many old-timers in the Yukon who will tell
tales similar to the incidents I have introduced in my story.
When one of my characters speaks of the Dawson officials as petty
larceny thieves and highway robbers, it is to be understood to be a
sample of the phraseology in vogue at the time.
The different types of prospector I have attempted to portray are those
I have met, lived with, and mixed with. Should it appear I have given
too much space to the humble economies of the miner's life, I shall
advance as my excuse the lack of our literature in this particular.
I have also made a humble attempt to establish the respectability of the
miner. So much has been written to compromise him, and so many
imaginations have drawn lurid pictures of his morals, I feel it his due.
In a general way the reader may accept anything in my story which has
none other than an historical interest as being accurate.
I am indebted to the Rev. Archdeacon Macdonald, now of Winnipeg, for the
story of his first discovery of gold. For the story of the discovery of
Franklin Gulch I am indebted to Mr. William Hartz, who also furnished
the accounts of the finding of gold in the Stewart River. These accounts
have never before been written.
W. H. P. J.
TORONTO, CANADA.
_January_ 1913.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE FORTUNE-SEEKERS. 1
II. JOHN BERWICK 11
III. THE BEGINNING OF YUKON 21
IV. SOCIETY IN ALASKA 30
V. SOAPY'S LITTLE GAME 38
VI. HITTING THE TRAIL 48
VII. HUGH'S PHILOSOPHY 62
VIII. OVER THE SUMMIT 71
IX. STORM AND STRESS 80
X. AN EMPIRE'S OUTPOST 90
XI. ANOTHER PASS 95
XII. A NEW PARTNER 107
XIII. THE DANCE 115
XIV. A LONG SHOT 126
XV. REVELATION 133
XVI. A STREAM OF HISTORY 137
XVII. DAWSON 149
XVIII. POO-BAH! 158
XIX. GRAFT 170
XX. A LOTTERY 182
XXI. THE PEELS' HOSPITAL 194
XXII. THE LAST STRAW 201
XXIII. REVOLUTION 214
XXIV. WITHIN THE BARRACKS 223
XXV. RECRUITING 230
XXVI. LOCATED 236
XXVII. THE WOOD-PILE 244
XXVIII. A COUNCIL OF WAR 251
XXIX. STONY GROUND 257
XXX. ON THE SCENT 265
XXXI. AN ODIOUS DILEMMA 274
XXXII. A DERELICT 280
XXXIII. TRIBUTE 286
XXXIV. NO SURRENDER 294
XXXV. THE MAN WITH THE POUCH 299
XXXVI. AFTER THE CRISIS 307
XXXVII. OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS 313
XXXVIII. REUNION 319
XXXIX. RETROSPECTION 325
XL. THE HAPPY ENDING 331
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