Gold Mountain: A Klondike Mystery - Plot & Excerpts
On their way to Dawson a year ago, as they’d travelled down the Yukon River from Lake Bennett in a boat hastily made of green logs, with a sail which the day before had been a tent, it had taken his breath away to see how completely empty — how vast — this land was. They’d stayed on the river, and all he’d been able to do was watch the countryside moving slowly past. They heard the howling of wolves at night and had seen moose several times, wading in the long grasses. At one spot, a grizzly bear, a gigantic creature of flashing teeth and claws, was fishing in a stream that fed into the river, tossing fish onto the rocks as easily as a woman might pick berries. In Dawson about all anyone seemed to want to do was dig up and cut down the wilderness as fast as possible. He lay awake for a long time, listening to the night and watching the glow of the fire as the men took turns keeping watch. Mr. Donohue had gotten lost when out searching for wood and blundered around, bellowing.
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