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Gold Hunting in Alaska
AS TOLD BY
Joseph Grinnell
Edited by Elizabeth Grinnell
Author of "How John and I Brought Up the Child," "John and I and the
Church," "Our Feathered Friends," "For the Sake of a Name," etc.
Dedicated to Disappointed gold=hunters the world over
David C. Cook Publishing Company
ELGIN, ILL., AND
36 WASHINGTON STREET, CHICAGO
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ALASKA.
Copyright, 1901,
By David C. Cook Publishing Company.
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Gold Hunting in Alaska.
PREFACE.
The following story was originally writtenin pencil on any sort of paper at hand, andintended merely for "the folks at home."It is only by a prior claim to the manuscriptthat the young gold-hunter's mother has obtainedhis consent to publish it. The diaryhas been changed but little, nor has muchbeen added to make it as it stands. The narrativeis true from beginning to end, includingthe proper names of persons and vesselsand mining companies. It is offered to theDavid C. Cook Publishing Company with nofurther apologies for its sometimes boyishstyle of construction. It will give the reader,be he man or boy, a hint as to how a youngfellow may spend his time in the long Arcticwinter, or in the whole year, even though hebe a disappointed gold-hunter. It may affordsuggestion to mining companies continuallygoing to Alaska as to their responsibilityto each other and to the natives of the"frozen North." It may give "the folksat home" some intimation as to possible"good times" under trying circumstances.Blue fingers may not necessarily denote ablue heart.
ELIZABETH GRINNELL.
Pasadena, Cal., Jan. 15, 1