"Yukon river" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Kutcha Kutchin, Yukon River. 6 ll. folio. Procured from Mr. Hardesty, who had resided among these Indians ...
— Catalogue Of Linguistic Manuscripts In The Library Of The Bureau Of Ethnology. (1881 N 01 / 1879-1880 (Pages 553-578)) • James Constantine Pilling
... certain village on the Yukon River there once lived four brothers and a sister. The sister's companion was the youngest boy, of whom she was very fond. This boy was lazy and could never be made to work. The other brothers were great hunters and in the fall they hunted at sea, for they ...
— A Treasury of Eskimo Tales • Clara Kern Bayliss
... made brief notes of their course throughout the remainder of their trip to the Yukon River, which are given here ...
— Young Alaskans in the Far North • Emerson Hough
... land bordering the ocean was thus in English hands, and gave access to a wide region beyond the Coast Mountains. Not content with what was leased, the Hudson Bay Company deliberately seized a locality on the Yukon river when it had no right. It built Fort Yukon and secured much of the interior trade of ...
— Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life • Thomas Wallace Knox
... reports from the Yukon River country, of the probable shortage of food for the large number of people who are wintering there without the means of leaving the country are confirmed in such measure as to justify bringing the matter to the attention of Congress. Access to that country in winter can be ...
— Messages and Papers of William McKinley V.2. • William McKinley |
