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Title: The Yukon Trail
A Tale of the North

Author: William MacLeod Raine

Release Date: October 11, 2006 [eBook #19527]

Language: English

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THE YUKON TRAIL

A Tale of the North

by

WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE

Author of
Wyoming, Bucky O'Connor, Etc.

With Illustrations by George Ellis Wolfe

[Illustration: NOW HE CAUGHT HER BY THE SHOULDERS (_See page 108_)]

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers
Copyright, 1917, by William MacLeod Raine
All Rights Reserved
Published May 1917

TO
MY BROTHER
EDGAR C. RAINE

who knew the Lights of Dawson when they were a magnet to the feet
of those answering the call of Adventure, who mushed the Yukon Trail
from its headwaters to Bering Sea, who still finds in the Frozen
North the Romance of the Last Frontier.

Contents

I. Going "In" 1
II. Enter a Man 10
III. Th