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• W4379780239 abstract "LIFE IN THE KLONDIKE AND ALASKA GOLD FIELDS LETTERS TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY C. A. CLAUSEN The stampede to Alaska, where everyone believes that gold grows as big as pears on the trees, is on in full force. So began a story in Seattle's Washington posten on February 25, 1898. The streets of the city are crowded with people day and night, and there is a howling of dogs, a bellowing of oxen, a bleating of goats without any letup. Down by the docks it is almost impossible to hear what people say because of all the hubbub raised by these four-legged invaders. The Klondike fever seems to have developed its greatest virulence in the East, because from the eastern states come regiments of hysterical Klondikers who have no conception of the hardships which await them. Among the thousands who joined the stampede were numerous Norwegian Americans. Most of them embarked at Seattle, but others left from Tacoma, San Francisco, and other Pacific ports. Two main routes could be followed to the land of gold. There was, first, the all-water route by ocean steamer to the mouth of the Yukon and thence up that stream by river boat to Dawson City, the administrative and business center of the Klondike region. Or, one might follow the famous overland route by way of either Skagway and White Pass or Dyea and Chilkoot Pass to Lakes Lindeman and Bennett beyond the divide. At these lakes the adventurers could build or buy boats, and, after hazardous trips down swift streams, reach the headwaters of the Yukon. The Klondike fever was continually fed by stories about 120 THE KLONDIKE AND ALASKA 121 returning prospectors who had struck it rich. Even very staid readers of Washington posten, for instance, might feel their heads spin when, in the typical issue of July 23, 1897, they read that Ben Wall had just returned with fifty thousand dollars; William Carlson with fifty thousand dollars; Henry Anderson with sixty-five thousand dollars; Johnson and Olsen with twenty thousand dollars; and Charles Anderson with twenty-five thousand dollars. Equally stimulating were issues like that of July 29, 1898, listing the gold boats that had docked at Seattle during the previous week: the City of Kingston with five hundred thousand dollars; the Charles Nilsen with one million, five hundred thousand dollars; the Humboldt with two million dollars. All told, sixteen gold ships had arrived at Seattle that month, bringing a total of twelve million dollars in dust and nuggets . Among some of the fortunate individuals aboard the Humboldt were the former hotel owner, Thagaard, who brought home forty thousand dollars, and Johan Eriksen ( Klondike Eriksen, as he was dubbed ) with three hundred thousand dollars, which represented merely his take for the past season. To be sure, the story of Eriksen was not entirely encouraging; the reporter went on to tell how Eriksen , though naturally a kind man, had become a millionaire so rapidly that he had turned haughty and so suspicious that he kept to himself with his 1,300 pounds of gold dust in a heavily guarded cabin. He did not want to be interviewed; and, when the reporter persisted, he called for the guard. But aberrations like this seemed to be unusual. Generally, we are told, the prospectors knew how to enjoy life when they returned to civilization with their newly won riches. While the Klondike excitement was reaching its climax, another gold field almost equally rich was discovered in the now famous Nome region of the Seward Peninsula. As related in one of the letters translated below, this discovery was made by a Norwegian, Jafet Lindeberg, and two 122 C. A. CLAUSEN Swedes, Erik Lindblom and John Brynteson, who, together with several later arrivals, staked out a number of rich claims. The lucky Swedes were not allowed to enjoy their Eldorado in peace, however. First they were harassed by a swarm of claim jumpers who argued that foreigners could not legally hold mining lands in Alaska. Later they and many other miners were threatened with dispossession by Alexander McKenzie, the notorious political boss and sharper from the Middle West. This incident developed into one of the..." @default.
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