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Letter From Theodore Klondike Claim Lone Prospect
Theodore Cook writes from the Klondike about a Dawson wash up of around $60,000 with each worker earning about $1,000, high living costs, scoffs at outdated laws, postal delays, and early winter work plans. He notes scurvy, rising prices, pack trains, and a possible fall job at $1 an hour. He mentions a brutal temperance critique and ends with a Gospel Messenger prayer.
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Dawson
Bonanza
St. Michaels
Bank of British North America
Atlin Lake Country
Post-Intelligencer
Labarge
Forks
Sapperd
Lebarge
Fort Selkirk
A. T. Cook