Chapter III: Preface: vii

I. FAIRBANKS TO THE CHANDALAR THROUGH CIRCLE
CITY AND FORT YUKON 3

II. CHANDALAR VILLAGE TO BETTLES, COLDFOOT, AND
THE KOYUKUK 34

III. BETTLES TO THE PACIFIC--THE ALATNA, KOBUK
PORTAGE, KOBUK VILLAGE, KOTZEBUE SOUND 63

IV. THE SEWARD PENINSULA--CANDLE CREEK, COUNCIL,
AND NOME 102

V. NOME TO FAIRBANKS--NORTON SOUND--THE KALTAG
PORTAGE--NULATO--UP THE YUKON TO TANANA 125

VI. THE "FIRST ICE"--AN AUTUMN ADVENTURE ON THE
KOYUKUK 157

VII. THE KOYUKUK TO THE YUKON AND TO TANANA--CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAYS AT SAINT JOHN'S-IN-THE-WILDERNESS 188

VIII. UP THE YUKON TO RAMPART AND ACROSS COUNTRY
TO THE TANANA--ALASKAN AGRICULTURE--THE
GOOD DOG NANOOK--MISS FARTHING'S BOYS AT
NENANA--CHENA AND FAIRBANKS 219

IX. TANANA CROSSING TO FORTYMILE AND DOWN THE
YUKON--A PATRIARCHAL CHIEF--SWARMING
CARIBOU--EAGLE AND FORT EGBERT--CIRCLE
CITY AND FORT YUKON 251

X. FROM THE TANANA RIVER TO THE KUSKOKWIM--THENCE
TO THE IDITAROD MINING CAMP--THENCE
TO THE YUKON, AND UP THAT RIVER
TO FORT YUKON 294

XI. THE NATIVES OF ALASKA 348

XII. PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ARCTIC 371

XIII. THE NORTHERN LIGHTS 380

XIV. THE ALASKAN DOGS 392

INDEX 413

ILLUSTRATIONS

Hudson Stuck (_photogravure_) _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Sunrise on the Chandalar-Koyukuk portage 36

Coldfoot on the Koyukuk 37

The upper Koyukuk 50

The barren shores of Kotzebue Sound 51

Gold-mining at Nome 122

Pulling the _Pelican_ out with a "Spanish windlass" 123

The start over the "first ice" 164

"Rough going" 165

Arthur and Doctor Burke 178

Saint John's-in-the-Wilderness, Allakaket, Koyukuk River 179

The double interpretation at the Allakaket 186

The wind-swept Yukon within the ramparts 187

A pleasant woodland trail 256

An Alaskan chief and his henchman 257

The Tanana crossing 270

Good going on the Yukon 271

"A portage that comes so finely down to the Yukon that
there is pleasure in anticipating the view it affords" 290

Fort Yukon 291

The rough breaking in of Doctor Loomis, camped on the mail
trail at 50 deg. below zero, unable to reach a road-house for
the deep snow 296

Esquimaux of the upper Kuskokwim 297

"The 'summit' is high above timber-line and the trail
pursues a hogback ridge for a mile and a half at the summit
level" 324

A street in Iditarod City 325

The end of the portage trail 334

Rough ice on the Yukon 335

A docile folk, eager for instruction 350

The mission type 351

Wild and shy 351

The native communicant 360

Raw material 360

An Esquimau youth 361

A half-breed Indian 361

An aged couple 366

Football at the Allakaket, exposure 1-1000 second, April,
after a new light snowfall 367

The sun dogs 388

"Tan," of mixed breed 389

"Muk," a pure malamute 389

Map of the interior of Alaska showing journeys described
in this book _At end of volume_

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

Three fundamental facts are to be borne constantly in mind by those who would form any intelligent conception of the Territory of Alaska.

(1) Its area of approximately 590,000 square miles makes it two and a half times as large as the State of Texas.

(2) But it is not, like Texas, one homogeneous body of land; it is not, in any geographical sense, one country at all. "Sweeping in a great arc over sixteen degrees of latitude and fifty-eight degrees of longitude," it is no less than four, and some might say five, different countries, differing from one another in almost every way that one country can differ from another: in climate, in population, in resources, in requirements; and--

(3) These different countries are not merely different from one another, they are _separated_ from one another by formidable natural barriers.

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