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• Title:Reminiscences of the Yukon / by the Hon. Stratford Tollemache.
  
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• Author/Creator:Tollemache, Stratford Haliday Robert Louis, 1864-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto : W. Briggs ; London : E. Arnold, 1912.
  

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  • Call Number: FC4022.3 .T6 1912A
    
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  • Call Number: FC4022.3 .T6 1912a
    
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  • Call Number: FC4022.3 .T6 1912a
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries.
  Yukon
  
• Description:xi, 316 pages : frontispiece, plates ; 23 cm.
  
• Summary:Author's experiences in the Yukon Territory, 1898-1909, including his mining activities in the Klondike region in the gold rush years, and trapping in the later years.
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Contents:Chapter I.
  The Yukon Valley
  Description of Alaska
  Yukon River
  White Pass Railway
  Skagway
  Soapy Bill
  Aurora Borealis
  Ice forming in the Yukon
  Ice breaking up in spring
  Birds in the Yukon
  Climate
  Man frozen in tent
  Frost-bites
  Fingers amputated
  Adventure on Stuart River
  Man frozen on Klondyke River
  Man frozen on Yukon
  Thermometers unreliable
  Chapter II.
  My trip to the Klondyke in 1898
  Forty Mile Creek
  Discovery of Bonanza Creek
  Staking claims
  The Klondyke boom
  Departure from Victoria
  Journey up the Stickene River
  Telegraph Creek
  Acquaintance with murderer
  Arrival at Long Lake
  Teslin Lake
  Death of three Englishmen
  Naskutla River
  Quiet Lake
  Starving Scotsmen
  Dried meat
  Forest fire
  Big Salmon River
  Camp destroyed by fire
  Arrive at Dawson
  Chapter III.
  First experiences of Dawson
  Dawson in 1898
  Dance-halls
  Tragedies
  Reported famine in Dawson
  Gold dust
  Speculation in Dawson
  R.N.W.M.P.
  Attempted murder in Skagway
  Dawson post office
  Typhoid fever
  Trip up Bonanza Creek
  Cost of labour
  Frozen gravel
  Placer mining
  Mammoth tusks
  My host on Bonanza
  Murder on the Yukon
  Rafts on the Yukon
  Commencement of winter
  Chapter IV.
  The winter of 1898
  Cabins in Dawson
  Scurvy
  Sleigh dogs
  Cold weather
  Journey round the creeks
  Hunker Creek
  Road-houses
  Winter mining
  The confidence trick
  King of the Klondyke
  Mountain summits
  Dominion Creek
  Panning for gold
  Gold Run Creek
  Sleighing down Bonanza
  Journey up Forty Mile Creek
  Dog suns
  Breaking through the ice
  The Dawson fire
  Arrival of spring Chapter V.
  Stampedes -Anxiety to acquire claims
  Summer stampedes
  Road-house stampedes
  Steamboat stampedes
  Nigger Jim stampede
  Severe weather
  Camping in 50 below zero
  Frozen beans
  Breaking trail
  Ascending mountain side
  Staking claims
  Return to camp
  Return journey to Dawson
  Chapter VI.
  The mines
  Hillside claims
  Adventure on Chee-Chaco hill
  The Prospector
  Discovery claim
  Juneau Joe
  Thawing gravel by steam
  Sluicing
  Quicksilver
  Black sand
  Gold dust robberies
  Circle City
  Tailings
  Quartz Creek
  Adventure on Calder Creek
  Severe accident
  Richness of Bonanza and Eldorado Creeks
  Quartz mining
  Bear's Nest swindle
  Chapter VII.
  The Pelly River
  Dawson library
  My two partners
  Camping under difficulties
  Pelly River
  Partner falls overboard
  Marking out trap-line
  Musquash
  Wayside cabins
  Setting traps
  Lynx
  Wolverine
  Foxes
  Hawk in trap
  Porcupine
  Journey to Tatlaman Lake
  Two old Indian women
  Fishing through the ice
  Whitehorse Crossing
  Lake La Barge
  Hootalinqua River
  Partner nearly drowned
  Return to Pelly River
  Building a cabin
  Raw furs
  Ermine
  Slight accident
  Trappers
  Jim Grew
  Chapter VIII.
  Colour protection and big game -Anomalies in colour protection
  Ptarmigan
  Chicken
  Mink and ermine
  Arctic hares
  Wapiti
  Moose
  Cariboo
  Mountain sheep
  Mountain goat
  Depredations of wolves
  Bears
  Chapter IX.
  The M'Millan River
  Journey up M'Millan River
  Blazing trees
  Trap-line
  Lynx
  Baits
  Dead-fall for marten
  Nail and hole trap
  Dead-fall for bear
  Wolves
  Poisoned baits
  Mink
  Tracks
  Disappointments in trapping
  Otter
  Lost in the woods
  Beaver
  Trapper's life
  Murder on Pelly River
  Lynx climbs tree
  River ice breaking
  Fish Slough
  Arrival at Selkirk
  Selling furs
  Trapper weds Indian girl
  Chapter X.
  Indians resemble Japanese
  Mortality
  Superstitions
  Missions
  General character
  Customs
  Deer tracks
  Murder on Yukon
  Indian honesty and patience
  Hostility
  Missionaries
  Indians gradually decreasing
  Indian legend
  Chapter XI.
  The trading post
  Fort Selkirk
  Selkirk trading post
  Judging furs
  Value of skins
  Insanity in Yukon
  Salmon
  Diptheria
  Winter stage
  Selkirk dances
  Adventure on Yukon
  Robbery in Dawson
  Marriage in Selkirk
  Journey to Vancouver
  Future prospects of Dawson.