E-text prepared by David Garcia and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 19527-h.htm or 19527-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/5/0/19527/19527-h/19527-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/5/0/19527/19527-h.zip) +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original | | document have been preserved. | | | +-------------------------------------------------------+ THE YUKON TRAIL A Tale of the North by WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE Author of Wyoming, Bucky O'Connor, Etc. With Illustrations by George Ellis Wolfe [Illustration: NOW HE CAUGHT HER BY THE SHOULDERS (_See page 108_)] New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers Copyright, 1917, by William MacLeod Raine All Rights Reserved Published May 1917 TO MY BROTHER EDGAR C. RAINE who knew the Lights of Dawson when they were a magnet to the feet of those answering the call of Adventure, who mushed the Yukon Trail from its headwaters to Bering Sea, who still finds in the Frozen North the Romance of the Last Frontier. Contents