Klondike gold
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is referenced by: https://rbscarchives.library.ubc.ca/phil-lind-klondike-gold-rush-collection
is part of: Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush collection
creator: Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
issued: 2024-06-14
issued: 2024-06-15T05:45:10Z
created: 1898
description: Pamplet advertising Old Honesty tobacco with information about the Klondike. Pamphlet includes a colour map of the gold-bearing regions of the Klondike.
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/plind/items/1.0446381/source.json
extent: 1 folded sheet : illustrations, maps
format: application/pdf
note: | cou ponEstY" |PLUG T0 area ofn 3 you taks, Vâ, ] '* *1 the t (th Te Californi: ( the size 3 m â§ hundred anmSEE p âNSI DE place, but an it the square not? & America, and 11 from the easter: â))AGO MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL (mepioside t"" RAILWAYâ1898 nommonnenmmenmensnener OLD HON a ââ 5 k J soa iï¬ arttr i ammensnn pammuatens durrunees, AF CA C onA o _â_,W_,j K niv ie Aommeatbeancant immsceitnn weeyâ (LONDIK Rates or Fare rrom CHicaso VIA THE 1st Class 2d Class ALASKA AND THE KLoKDiKE. || There is only one piece of land owned by the United States that is not a part of the main body of our soil. That one is a very large piece, and those who were leafning geography less than forty years ago knew it as " Russian America." 4 We bought it of Russia thirty years ago. It cost us $7,200,000. We did not need it particularly, but Russia wanted to sell it, so we took it off of her hands and paid her the money. Nobody thought or cared much about it during all the time that has since passed until a few months ago, when the name â* Klondike"â became a comâ "ap THE YUKON RIVER. Through this vast country from northeast to southâ west flows one of the great rivers of the worldâthe Yukon. It is a wide and sandy stream, like the Missouri in class, difficult of navigation, and full of floating ice, or frozen entirely for more than half the year. Neverâ theless, it is sixty miles wide at its mouth, and a thousand miles above it is still at flood some ten miles wide. It is navigable for âsteamboats nineteen hundred miles and more above its mouth, where two other streams, the Lewes andâPelly rivers, join to form it.: Smaller steamers can navigate these two streams some hundreds of miles their season, and the Indians had a name for itâ "ThloonâDiuk," said to mean " plenty of fish," and hence our nameâ" Klondike." A white man named Carmack, a " squawâman," who had lived in that country several years, a man who was not a ininer at all, but a fisherman, went to this stream in the summer of 189…
has type: Correspondence
spatial: Alaska
spatial: Yukon
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0446381
language: English
subject: John Finzer & Bros.
subject: Gold mines and mining--Alaska
subject: Alaska--Description and travel
provider: Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Chicago : Poole Bros.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca
source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush collection. RBSC-ARC-1820-17-11
type: Text