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The Trail of the Goldseekers
The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse
By HAMLIN GARLANDAuthor of Rose of Dutcher's Coolly Main Travelled Roads Prairie Folks Boy Life on the Prairie, etc.
New YorkThe Macmillan Company London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1906
Copyright , 1899,By HAMLIN GARLAND.
Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1899. Reprinted January,1906.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE
Coming of the Ships 3 Outfitting 11 On the Stage Road 21 In Camp at Quesnelle 33 The Blue Rat 37 The Beginning of the Long Trail 45 The Blackwater Divide 53 We swim the Nechaco 63 First Crossing of the Bulkley 73 Down the Bulkley Valley 81 Hazleton. Midway on the Trail 97 Crossing the Big Divide 107 The Silent Forests 119 The Great Stikeen Divide ...