The Tragedy Of The Klondike

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X THEY continued to serve summonses on me daily, but I declined to go to court, and kept my bed. The following letter from one of the leading physicians of Dawson will serve to show my good faith in the matter and the persecution to which I was subjected: "To Major Wood, Commanding Officer, N. W. M. P., Dawson, Y. T. "dear Sir: I have been shown another communication from Inspector Starnes in the cases of alleged criminal libel against Luella Day. His behavior as magistrate from the very inception of the proceedings till now has been such as to aggravate and prolong her sickness. "I have to say also that his extraordinary utterances from the bench and his conduct throughout these proceedings show a want of good faith in the administration of his office, besides amounting to a tacit impeachment of every medical affidavit before his court in this particular case. "His communication of to-day ends as follows: 'In any case your physicians will have to appear in person to satisfy the Court verbally as to your condition.' Inspector Starnes came to m see me twice on Sunday regarding this case. I told him that I would be pleased to attend court when summoned as a witness. "Faithfully yours, "william Catto, M.D." Then a policeman invaded my bedroom where I lay ill, and brought a verbal message from Judge Dugas saying if I would come before the court and apologize, all the proceedings against me would be dropped. I refused flatly, saying I had nothing to apologize for, as every word I had written to the Minister of Justice was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God! Colonel MacGregor appeared on the scene with Dr. Richardson, of the mounted police, who pronounced it dangerous to my life to take me into the...

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Excerpt from The Tragedy of the Klondike: This Book of Travels Gives the True Facts of What Took Place in the Gold-Fields Under British Rule From time immemorial the human race has been more or less "gold-mad." The lust of gold has been the motive-power which has ruled the world, opened up new countries, made cities to spring up on the plains, discovered new continents, made wars and bloodshed in every part of the world. Solomon could not have built his temple without gold. It was the motive-power that led to the search for golden fleece. It was the lust for gold that brought Christopher Columbus across a trackless waste of water to discover a new world and a new people and finally to death in chains. Australia, with its vast area and varied resources, would still be a sheep-farm except for the discovery of auriferous deposits, which was but a penal colony instead of the world-power it is to-day. India was and is the most brilliant of Great Britain's crown-jewels as a producer of gold and precious stones. And all this has been acquired by the few, and the multitude has fallen by the wayside. Men have risked and lost their lives in desert amid thirst and sand-storm; have climbed almost inaccessible heights and perished by the many risks which beset the explorer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

In 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities in the Klondike River region of the Yukon, a mob of economically desperate Americans swarmed north. Within weeks tens of thousands of them were embarking from western ports to throw themselves at some of the harshest terrain on the planet -- in winter yet -- woefully unprepared, with no experience at all in mining or mountaineering. It was a mass delusion that quickly proved deadly: avalanches, shipwrecks, starvation, murder.