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And I knew a goldminer on the Yukon. You flew in here on a kindly wind,' and he whispered back: 'In these islandsthere are no gentle winds. vin Hoxey to get the Jones Act passed, for the welfareof Alaska, and now I'll be working with some of the most h , rockwalled canyonand then over stupendous rapids before it reached the relative calm of the soon-to-be-clearYukon.

th many of the latter eager to relate how Jackson had battledwith them over points not worth the effort. When he went ashorewith Dmitri and his mother he said bluntly: 'We've brought you a real church. d Stonewall Jackson, had prospected in the Yukon from 1893 through theheight of the discoveries in1896, 'For a variety of reasons the Nome gold strike was trebly attractive.