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The Great Gold Rush by W. H. P. (William Henry Pope) Jarvis

Chapter 1 TO

COLONEL SAMUEL BENFIELD STEELE

C.B., M.V.O., A.D.C.

ONE TIME OFFICER COMMANDING

THE

NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE IN THE

YUKON TERRITORY

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

AS A

TOKEN OF AFFECTIONATE REGARD

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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.

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CONTENTS

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Chapter 2 THE FORTUNE-SEEKERS

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Chapter 3 JOHN BERWICK

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Chapter 4 THE BEGINNING OF YUKON

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Chapter 5 SOCIETY IN ALASKA

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Chapter 6 SOAPY'S LITTLE GAME

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Chapter 7 HITTING THE TRAIL

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Chapter 8 HUGH'S PHILOSOPHY

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Chapter 9 OVER THE SUMMIT

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Chapter 10 STORM AND STRESS

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Chapter 11 AN EMPIRE'S OUTPOST

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Chapter 12 ANOTHER PASS

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Chapter 13 A NEW PARTNER

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Chapter 14 THE DANCE

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Chapter 15 A LONG SHOT

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Chapter 16 REVELATION

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Chapter 17 A STREAM OF HISTORY

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Chapter 18 DAWSON

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Chapter 19 POO-BAH!

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Chapter 20 GRAFT

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Chapter 21 A LOTTERY

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Chapter 22 THE PEELS' HOSPITAL

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Chapter 23 THE LAST STRAW

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Chapter 24 REVOLUTION

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Chapter 25 WITHIN THE BARRACKS

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Chapter 26 RECRUITING

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Chapter 27 LOCATED

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Chapter 28 THE WOOD-PILE

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Chapter 29 A COUNCIL OF WAR

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Chapter 30 STONY GROUND

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Chapter 31 ON THE SCENT

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Chapter 32 AN ODIOUS DILEMMA

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Chapter 33 A DERELICT

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Chapter 34 TRIBUTE

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Chapter 35 NO SURRENDER

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Chapter 36 THE MAN WITH THE POUCH

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Chapter 37 AFTER THE CRISIS

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Chapter 38 OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS

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Chapter 39 REUNION

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Chapter 40 RETROSPECTION

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