A Land Gone Lonesome An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River

by O'Neill, Dan

• ISBN13: 9781582433646
• ISBN10: 158243364X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-26
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off from Dawson, Yukon Territory, onetime site of the Klondike gold rush, to trace the majestic Yukon River. His journey downriver to Circle City, Alaska, is an expedition into the history of the river and its land, and a record of the inimitable and little known inhabitants of the region. With the distinct perspective of an insider,A Land Gone Lonesomegives us an intelligent, rhapsodic-and ultimately, probably the last-portrait of the Yukon and its authentic inhabitants.

Author Biography

Dan O’Neill is the author of A Land Gone Lonesomeand The Last Giant of Beringia. He was named Alaska Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society for The Firecracker Boys. He lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Table of Contents

Dawson City Yukon Territory	p. 1
Moosehide	p. 9
Cnandindu River	p. 17
Fifteenmile River	p. 23
Halfway House	p. 25
Cassiar Creek	p. 27
Hammer Bar/Sunset Creek	p. 30
Fortymile River and Forty Mile	p. 31
Coal Creek	p. 40
Old Man and Old Woman Rocks	p. 41
Mel's Camp	p. 42
Stan Zuray	p. 46
Bill Fliris/Ichthyophonus Hoferi	p. 49
Dozen Islands	p. 53
Fanning Creek	p. 54
Poppy Creek	p. 55
Robert Cameron's Cabin	p. 57
Bio Camp	p. 58
The Border	p. 69
Steve Ulvi and Lynette Roberts	p. 60
Eagle	p. 65
Seymour Able	p. 69
Calico Bluff	p. 80
Seventymile River	p. 81
Seventymile City and Star City	p. 86
Tatonduk River, Heinie Miller	p. 86
Dick Cook	p. 89
Wood Islands	p. 121
Montauk Bluff	p. 123
Pollack Joe	p. 126
Nation River/Dave Evans	p. 129
Nation City	p. 140
Taylor's Place	p. 141
Ivy City	p. 142
Rock Creek	p. 143
Glenn Creek	p. 147
Seymour's Old Camp	p. 148
Tne Steam Tractor	p. 151
George Beck's Cabin at Washington Creek	p. 152
Washington Creek Roadhouse	p. 152
Charley's Village	p. 154
Sarge Waller's Cabin	p. 155
Ricketts's Cabin	p. 156
Biederman's	p. 157
Kandik Trappers	p. 162
Randy Brown	p. 165
Dirty Fred's Cabin	p. 173
Mail Trail Way Station	p. 175
Crazy Man Island	p. 176
Ed Gelvin's A-Frame	p. 178
Charley River/Charlie Kidd	p. 180
Ames Cabin	p. 183
Sam Creek/Carolyn Kelly	p. 189
Slaven's Roadhouse Coal Creek	p. 196
Coal Creek Dredge and Camp	p. 197
Woodchopper Roadhouse	p. 200
Woodchopper Creek/Joe Vogler	p. 201
Eureka Creek/The Other Fortymile	p. 213
Falcons and Jaguars	p. 220
Shahnyaati'	p. 228
Into Circle City	p. 230
Afterword	p. 238
Index	p. 245
Acknowledgments	p. 243
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