CAMP FIRES IN THE YUKON 



CHAPTER I 



" Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide 



us; 



Let us journey to a lonely land I know. 

 There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam 



to guide us, 

 And the wild is calling, calling let us go." 



The northwest angle of the Western Hemisphere 

 stretches into the Pacific Ocean toward Asia, form- 

 ing the United States Territory of Alaska, well 

 termed a " nation's treasure house." Separated 

 from Alaska on the east by only the imaginary 

 boundary of the one hundred and forty-first merid- 

 ian of longitude, lies an inland domain politically a 

 province of the Dominion of Canada, with a sea 

 coast of only 200 miles on the ice-bound Arctic Sea ; 

 and this domain is also a " nation's treasure house," 

 a land of romance and somewhat of mystery the 

 Yukon. 



Within this Yukon Territory there flows a re- 

 markable and mighty stream, the Yukon River, 



