Down the Mackenzie and up the Yukon in 1906

Name: Down the Mackenzie and up the Yukon in 1906
Author: Stewart, Elihu

Stewart, Elihu

Mackenzie (N.W.T.) -- Description and travel; Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel; Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) -- Description and travel

More about the Slave River : On Steamer _Wrigley_ : Fine
    Gardens at Resolution : A Nasty Experience : Bishop Reeves
    Comes Aboard for a Round Trip : Miss Wilgriss Leaves : Hay
    River : Fort Providence : The Little Lake : Fort Simpson :
    A Pathetic Incident : An Imaginary Cabinet : We Reach Fort
    Wrigley                                                        73–97

  CHAPTER VII

  Leaving Fort Norman : A Sad Case : In Arctic Regions :
    Arrival at Fort McPherson                                     99–110

  CHAPTER VIII

  Ice Conditions of the Summer of 1905                           111–114

  CHAPTER IX

  From Fort McPherson to Rampart House : Crossing the Peel
    River : An Attempt at Intimidation : The Summit of the
    Rocky Mountains : In Pacific Waters : The Porcupine : John
    Quatlot Departs                                              115–150

  CHAPTER X

  From Rampart House to Fort Yukon : In Alaska : With Dan
    Cadzow’s Party                                               151–157

  CHAPTER XI

  The Ramparts of the Porcupine : An Unoccupied House : A
    Girl’s Unhappiness : Awaiting an Up-going Steamer : From
    Fort Yukon to Dawson City                                    159–168

  CHAPTER XII

  Dawson City : In Civilisation Once More : High Prices : To
    Whitehorse on the _Dawson_: Gamblers’ Tricks                 169–175

  CHAPTER XIII

  From Skagway to Vancouver : On the _Princess May_ : Fort
    Simpson : Prince Rupert : End of the Journey                 177–185

PART II

  SECT.                                                             PAGE
        FOREWORD                                                     189

     I. CLIMATE                                                      191

    II. SOIL                                                         201

   III. MINERALS                                                     205

    IV. PLACER GOLD                                                  209

     V. TIMBER                                                       211

    VI. ANIMALS                                                      217

   VII. FISH                                                         221

  VIII. WILD FOWL                                                    223

    IX. INHABITANTS                                                  229

     X. HALF BREEDS                                                  247

    XI. THE TRADERS                                                  253

   XII. MISSIONARIES                                                 261

        CONCLUSION: AN APPEAL                                        267

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

                                                          _To face page_

  S.S. _Wrigley_ at the junction of the Mackenzie and Liard
    Rivers                                              _Frontispiece_

  Tracking on Athabaska River                                         36

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Down the Mackenzie and up the Yukon in 1906

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