Adventures in Alaska By S. HALL YOUNG, D.D. _Alaska Days with John Muir._ Illustrated, 12mo, cloth.... "Do you remember Stickeen, the canine hero of John Muir's dog story? Here is a book by the man who owned Stickeen and was Muir's companion on the adventurous trip among the Alaskan glaciers. This is not only a breezy outdoor book, full of the wild beauties of the Alaskan wilderness, it is also a living portrait of John Muir in the great moments of his career."--_New York Times._ "I can see only one fault with the book, it is far too short. I should love to read such a book as big as the dictionary. Thank you very much!"--_Gene Stratton-Porter._ "One need not be an admirer of John Muir to be thoroughly entertained by the lively pages. The Muir of this book is the familiar vibrant personality. This little book, the record of these trips, is written in a style animated and vivid without being journalistic--a style not unlike that of the lover of glaciers himself."--_The Nation._ Adventures in Alaska By S. HALL YOUNG _Author of "Alaska Days with John Muir," "The Klondike Clan"_ ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] NEW YORK CHICAGO Fleming H. Revell Company LONDON AND EDINBURGH Copyright, 1919, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street [Illustration: Stalking Walrus in an Oomiak Dr. Young's figure is to the left. This is the time he got his ivory for the gavels] Foreword The author puts forth this little book of actual adventures in the great new land of Alaska with the hope that it will afford healthy-minded young people a true idea of some phases of human and animal life there. These stories are picked out of an experience of forty years and selected with a view to both unity and variety. The first three chapters are an attempt to draw in bold outline some dramatic episodes of the author's experience in the second of the three great gold stampedes of the Northwest. All these struggles for gold have in them richly dramatic elements. Life in such camps pulses strongly with all human ambitions, affections and passions. The missionary, if he is really to commend himself to the men who rush into the wilderness for gold, and do them good, must, first of all, prove himself a _man_, ready and able to do and suffer everything that falls to the lot of the gold seekers. He must live their life and play the game with them. He must cheerfully put up with the privations they endure, must take the lead in their healthy sports, must alleviate their sufferings, and, keeping himself free from the deadly gold-lust, must show that he has in himself and can give to his fellow pioneers something better than gold. His heart must be, for himself and those about him, a living fountain of joy and peace.