The Trail of the Goldseekers: A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse

Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1899. Reprinted January, 1906. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. TABLE OF CONTENTS Coming of the Ships 3 Outfitting 11 On the Stage Road 21 In Camp at Quesnelle 33 The Blue Rat 37 The Beginning of the Long Trail 45 The Blackwater Divide 53 We swim the Nechaco 63 First Crossing of the Bulkley 73 Down the Bulkley Valley 81 Hazleton. Midway on the Trail 97 Crossing the Big Divide 107 The Silent Forests 119 The Great Stikeen Divide 131 In the Cold Green Mountains 139 The Passing of the Beans 151 The Wolves and the Vultures Assemble 163 At Last the Stikeen 175 The Goldseekers' Camp at Glenora 185 Great News at Wrangell 195 The Rush to Atlin Lake 207 Atlin Lake and the Gold Fields 217 The End of the Trail 231 Homeward Bound 241 Ladrone travels in State 251 The Goldseekers reach the Golden River 259 POEMS Anticipation 1 Where the Desert flames with Furnace Heat 2 The Cow-boy 9 From Plain to Peak 19 Momentous Hour 31 A Wish 32 The Gift of Water 35 Mounting 35 The Eagle Trail 36 Moon on the Plain 43 The Whooping Crane 51 The Loon 51 Yet still we rode 61 The Gaunt Gray Wolf 79 Abandoned on the Trail 80 Do you fear the Wind? 95 Siwash Graves 105 Line up, Brave Boys 106 A Child of the Sun 117 In the Grass 118 The Faithful Broncos 129 The Whistling Marmot 130 The Clouds 137 The Great Stikeen Divide 138 The Ute Lover 147 Devil's Club 150 In the Cold Green Mountains 150 The Long Trail 159 The Greeting of the Roses 161 The Vulture 172 Campfires 173 The Footstep in the Desert 182 So this is the End of the Trail to him 190 The Toil of the Trail 193 The Goldseekers 205 The Coast Range of Alaska 215 The Freeman of the Hills 229 The Voice of the Maple Tree 230 A Girl on the Trail 239 O the Fierce Delight 249 The Lure of the Desert 258 This out of All will remain 262 Here the Trail ends 263 ANTICIPATION I will wash my brain in the splendid breeze, I will lay my cheek to the northern sun, I will drink the breath of the mossy trees, And the clouds shall…