s alone would justify any efforts to prevent
further inroads upon their health and vitality.

April, 1916.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

PREFACE vii

I. FAIRBANKS TO THE CHANDALAR THROUGH CIRCLE
CITY AND FORT YUKON 3

II. CHANDALAR VILLAGE TO BETTLES, COLDFOOT, AND
THE KOYUKUK 34

III. BETTLES TO THE PACIFIC--THE ALATNA, KOBUK
PORTAGE, KOBUK VILLAGE, KOTZEBUE SOUND 63

IV. THE SEWARD PENINSULA--CANDLE CREEK, COUNCIL,
AND NOME 102

V. NOME TO FAIRBANKS--NORTON SOUND--THE KALTAG
PORTAGE--NULATO--UP THE YUKON TO TANANA 125

VI. THE "FIRST ICE"--AN AUTUMN ADVENTURE ON THE
KOYUKUK 157

VII. THE KOYUKUK TO THE YUKON AND TO TANANA--CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAYS AT SAINT JOHN'S-IN-THE-WILDERNESS 188

VIII. UP THE YUKON TO RAMPART AND ACROSS COUNTRY
TO THE TANANA--ALASKAN AGRICULTURE--THE
GOOD DOG NANOOK--MISS FARTHING'S BOYS AT
NENANA--CHENA AND FAIRBANKS 219

IX. TANANA CROSSING TO FORTYMILE AND DOWN THE
YUKON--A PATRIARCHAL CHIEF--SWARMING
CARIBOU--EAGLE AND FORT EGBERT--CIRCLE
CITY AND FORT YUKON 251

X. FROM THE TANANA RIVER TO THE KUSKOKWIM--THENCE
TO THE IDITAROD MINING CAMP--THENCE
TO THE YUKON, AND UP THAT RIVER
TO FORT YUKON 294

XI. THE NATIVES OF ALASKA 348

XII. PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ARCTIC 371

XIII. THE NORTHERN LIGHTS 380

XIV. THE ALASKAN DOGS 392

INDEX 413

ILLUSTRATIONS

Hudson Stuck (_photogravure_) _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Sunrise on the Chandalar-Koyukuk portage 36

Coldfoot on the Koyukuk 37

The upper Koyukuk 50

The barren shores of Kotzebue Sou