E-text prepared by Barbara Kosker, David Edwards, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 31989-h.htm or 31989-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31989/pg31989-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31989/31989-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/toalaskaforgoldo00strarich TO ALASKA FOR GOLD * * * * * * [Illustration: TO ALASKA FOR GOLD EDWARD STRATEMEYER BOUND TO SUCCEED SERIES] EDWARD STRATEMEYER'S BOOKS Old Glory Series _Cloth Illustrated Price per volume $1.25._ UNDER DEWEY AT MANILA Or the War Fortunes of a Castaway. A YOUNG VOLUNTEER IN CUBA Or Fighting for the Single Star. FIGHTING IN CUBAN WATERS Or Under Schley on the Brooklyn. UNDER OTIS IN THE PHILIPPINES Or A Young Officer in the Tropics. (_In Press._) The Bound to Succeed Series _Three volumes Cloth Illustrated Price per volume $1.00._ RICHARD DARE'S VENTURE Or Striking Out for Himself. OLIVER BRIGHT'S SEARCH Or The Mystery of a Mine. TO ALASKA FOR GOLD Or The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon. The Ship and Shore Series _Three volumes Cloth Illustrated Price per volume $1.00._ THE LAST CRUISE OF THE SPITFIRE Or Larry Foster's Strange Voyage. REUBEN STONE'S DISCOVERY Or The Young Miller of Torrent Bend. TRUE TO HIMSELF Or Roger Strong's Struggle for Place. (_In Press._) * * * * * * [Illustration: "UNCLE FOSTER! EARL! LOOK AT THIS!"--_Page 170._] TO ALASKA FOR GOLD Or The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by EDWARD STRATEMEYER Author of "Under Dewey at Manila," "A Young Volunteer in Cuba," "Fighting in Cuban Waters," "Richard Dare's Venture," "Oliver Bright's Search," Etc., Etc. Illustrated by A. B. Shute Boston Lee and Shepard Publishers 1899 Copyright, 1899, by Lee and Shepard. All Rights Reserved. TO ALASKA FOR GOLD. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co. Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A. PREFACE. "TO ALASKA FOR GOLD" forms the third volume of the "Bound to Succeed" Series. Like the preceding tales, this story is complete in itself. The rush to the far-away territory of Alaska, when gold in large quantities was discovered upon Klondike Creek, was somewhat similar to the rush to California in years gone by. The gold fever spread to even the remotest of our hamlets, and men, young and old, poured forth, ready to endure every hardship if only the much-coveted prize might be secured. That many succeeded and that many more failed is now a matter of history, although of recent date.