_By James B. Hendryx_ The Promise The Gun Brand The Texan The Gold Girl Prairie Flowers North Connie Morgan in Alaska Connie Morgan with the Mounted Connie Morgan in the Lumber Camps Connie Morgan in the Fur Country NORTH BY JAMES B. HENDRYX AUTHOR OF “THE PROMISE,” “SNOWDRIFT,” “CONNIE MORGAN IN ALASKA,” ETC. [Illustration] G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1923 Copyright, 1923 by James B. Hendryx [Illustration] Made in the United States of America CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I.--BURR MACSHANE 3 II.--IN THE BIG CAMP 13 III.--CHRISTMAS 27 IV.--A GAME OF CRIBBAGE 37 V.--NORTH 53 VI.--CAMILLO BILL AVERTS A STAMPEDE 62 VII.--THE GORDONS HIT THE TRAIL 70 VIII.--COLDFOOT 78 IX.--ON THE KOYUKUK 85 X.--ENRIGHT PAYS A VISIT 100 XI.--DISAPPOINTMENT 114 XII.--“TWENTY MINUTES TO FOUR” 127 XIII.--THE START 134 XIV.--THE FINISH 147 XV.--“MINER’S MEETIN’” 154 XVI.--OFF THE RIVER 171 XVII.--SKOOKUM 190 XVIII.--ON THE LONG SNOW-TRAIL 202 XIX.--ON DEATH VALLEY HILL 212 XX.--MAN OF THE FAR NORTH 227 XXI.--THE PLOTTING OF JAKE DALZENE 244 XXII.--POISON 254 XXIII.--“I DRIVE THOSE DOGS” 265 XXIV.--THE ALASKA SWEEPSTAKES 274 XXV.--HULOIMEE TILAKUM 284 XXVI.--EYES IN THE DARK 293 XXVII.--THE WORTH OF GOLD 305 XXVIII.--SUNRISE 318 NORTH NORTH CHAPTER I BURR MacSHANE It was just before Christmas, and into Dawson, a straggling camp of tents and log cabins, the sourdoughs were drifting from the outlying creeks and washes. It was in that portentous year of the Yukon when in August, Henderson’s strike on Gold Bottom was followed immediately by Carmack’s strike on Bonanza, and the men of Fortymile and of Circle looked into the blowers and saw coarse gold that had been panned from the grass roots. Whereupon, claims paying “better than wages” were abandoned, outfits hastily thrown together, and in poling boats and in canoes, the sourdoughs stampeded up river. The traders, the saloon keepers, and the girls from the dance halls followed the gold hunters and on the flat in the shadow of Moosehide Mountain the camp of Dawson was born of the life blood of Circle and Fortymile.