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So it has come to pass that those men who are 

 left are either giants in stature and physical 

 strength, or lightly built men with nerve and 

 grit, and muscles tough enough to cope with 

 all sorts of hard work. 



While this is true of the men, it is equally 

 true of the few women that are to be found 

 in this territory. It is said that of every one 

 hundred white men in the Yukon but ten are 

 married, and of that ten but two are married 

 to white women. The story I am about to 

 narrate will feature two white women and one 

 Indian woman, each one in her own sphere 

 being a heroine of the far northwest. All of 

 them are so highly spoken of, and thought of, 

 by the men who are fortunate enough to be 

 acquainted with them, that they are almost 

 worshiped. Let any man, white or red, say 

 ought against any one of the three, and he will 

 be so roughly handled by his fellows that he'll 

 never make such a gross blunder again. 



The White Housewife 



A portion of our long journey covered a 

 distance of one hundred and fifty miles over 

 a good trail, which reached from White Horse 

 to the head of a large lake about forty miles 

 long. We arrived there late at night at a lit- 



