' Onlya man who had conquered the great Mackenzie River would entertain so daring a schemefor the Yukon. hen he heard that yet another prospectorhad been killed coming down from Chilkoot Pass, and with a sense of irritation wit Everyone who knew this capable man wanted to employ him, the most unusual proposalbeing that he become the Presbyterian missionary at Barrow. 'Kasm Hooker was impressed by quite a different accomplishment of the young man: 'Hisfather played a little basketball in college and they have a regulation basket onflat land beside the river.
He did not stop to reflect that from the time he had heard of the Klondike,on 20 July 1897, to this sixteenth of December in the same year, he had wasted scarcelya day. And it changed him not at all. Men have no trouble. How in hell did I windup in Desolation? Where will you wind up? Who knows? But keep moving.
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