from Brantford,
Ontario, were the principals--the Strathdees.

Mr. A. C. Strathdee was one of the early stampeders. He went north
with sixteen pack-horses. His only companion was his son, aged
twenty-two, W. Harvey Strathdee, a member of the Dufferin Rifles. They
camped one night beside the Taylor Trail that leads to Nelson. In the
morning, while cooking breakfast, Harvey sighted a moose and,
straightway, started in pursuit. At noon he had not returned and his
father, becoming anxious, tried to follow the trail, but
unsuccessfully. At night, the now frantic man lit a fire and shot off
his rifle in the hope that Harvey might see or hear them. He did this
for eight terrible days and eight more terrible nights, till he
realized that further delay would endanger his own life. In these
eight days, half of his horses died from lack of food, the man being
afraid to shift camp in case Harvey might find his way back.

Further on, he met James and John Fair of Elkhorn, Manitoba, who
returned with him to spend yet eight other days in unavailing search.
At Dunvegan, Mr. Strathdee engaged a white man, an Indian, and a
dog-train to go in and make quest till spring. Then he came back to
Edmonton, where he exacted promises from the journalists to forward to
him at Brantford any report that might come in from the trails
regarding the lost youth.

For a long time nothing came but, one day, some Indians brought in word
how on their way north nearly a year before, they fell on the fresh
trail of a lost white man and had followed it up. They knew he was
white for he wore boots, and that he was lost because of his uncertain,
round-about course. They found his body on a mountain between two
logs. His arms were outspread and his cartridge belt and rifle lay by
his side. The trees around had been burned, and the Indians were of
the opinion that he had set them on fire to try and attract his
father's attention.

That the public of Canada and the United States had little idea of the
hardships to be endured on the overland trail was evidenced by the fact
that a number of women attempted to take it. Some of them wore
ordinary clothes with plumes in their hats, but the more knowing ones
were attired in jaeger skirts and jerseys, also they wore jaeger caps
that covered the face except for the nose and mouth. In their belts
they carried six-shooters.

Letters were received here asking if the writers could get through to
the Klon