The Klondike True Story of Ladue and the Rush
New York World correspondent recounts Joseph Ladue founder of Dawson City. He proclaims a plain man with 15 years in the Yukon and Alaska, a modest fortune of about seventy five thousand dollars, five thousand in gold, sixty nuggets, a sawmill, and mining claims. Ladue describes dangers, hunger, cold, and the hard, unromantic effort behind the Klondike boom. He plans to return in March to operate his claims and sawmill despite doubts about home and marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Joseph Ladue
Plattsburg
N. Y
Ladne
Mitem
Alaska
Northwest Territory
Yukon
Ladue
Dawson City
Damin
Bu Niver
Cocen
Beginning the Search in the Yukon and Klondike Era
Narrator recounts travel from Schuyler to the Black Hills, Arizona, Alaska, and finally toward the Klondike in 1882. He describes assembling a 2-year outfit, crossing Chilkat Pass, building boats on Lake Lindeman, wintering at Fort Reliance, and venturing toward Sixty Mile Creek for gold as Harper had found. The account notes Fort Reliance trading post, the Alaska Commercial Trading Co setup, and the early Klondike exploration era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schuyler Balls
Black Hills
Dakota
Deadwood
Central City
Arizona
New Mexico
Alaska
San Francisco
State of California
Goodale & Perkins
Juneau
William Moore
John McGraw
John Rogers
Hl. H. Pitts
Robert Adams
Klondike
Bee
Deee Teucteee
Dyea
Chilkat
Chilkat Pass
Lake Lindeman
Yukon River
Fort Reliance
Sixty Mile Creek
Yukon
The
Alaska Commercial Trading Company
First Good Digging and Klondike Gold Discoveries
A narrative recounts early prospecting in Alaska and the Klondike region. It describes bands of Indians guiding to quartz riches, river journeys, a harsh winter with scurvy, and the 1880s discovery of rich bars on the Stuart River and Forty Mile Creek. The place names include Yukon, Tanana, Stuart River, Dawson City, Fort Reliance, and Belle Isle Station, with mentions of rockers, bar and bench diggings, and trading posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plas
Fort Reluke
Brancisco Mercier
Montero
ACP Company
Curie
Brancisco Moereier
Belle Isle Station
Tonanna
Cralg
Thijs
Forty Mile Creek
Sixty Mile Creek
A. C. T. Company
Yukon
Tanana River
Dawson City
Rons
William Moore
John McGraw
Harper and McQuesten
Stuart River
Juneau
San Francisco
Belle Isle
Mercier
A. J. Franklin
Jo O’brien
Lambert
Port Reliance
Fort Reliance
Forty Mile
Klondike
Forty Mile Creek and Early Klondike Diggings Tale
Narrative of exploration from 1885 to 1891 by Dinsmore Davis and Ganslaw describing Forty Mile Creek as base for Klondike mining. Notes first death in 1886, decries graves claim as false, and mentions transition to mercantile work at Sixty Mile Creek and mining ventures near Throw Druck River with Robert Henderson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller
Davian
Glacier
Frank Dinsmore
James Davis
Joseph Ganslaw
Klondiky
Sixty Mile Creek
Forty Mile Creek
Jack Welch
Forty Mile
Dawson
Throw Druck
Klondike
Robert Henderson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ladee
New York
Dangon
Hving
Cumberland Hotel
Mer McQuest Wihout Joshin
Mr. McQinosten
Urbins Fee
Fleeshens Commercial Trading Company
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