Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1901 — WOMAN IN THE KLONDIKE. [ARTICLE]

WOMAN IN THE KLONDIKE.

Just at dark we made a landing on the banks of the Yukon, directly in front of the little town of Dawson, and, pitching our tents in the snow, we camped for the night under our first shelter—even of a tent —for ten days. All were so pleased and happy that good fortune had enabled us to escape the perils which threatened, as well as the danger of an ice block, in the river, that the men proposed a celebration of their good fortune. They were going up town, but I told them it was not right to leave me alone the first night in a strange place and that if they would remain in camp I would pay for enough for them to drink and have their celebration in their tents. To this they agreed, and one of them went to the town and shortly returned, stating that whisky, Canadian case goods, was $lO a quart. I sent him back and purchased a couple of bottles, which the men drank without becoming boisterous. 1 then went to my war sack, and, taking out my guitar, which I had carried over the summit, we sat on the ground around the little tent stove and all joined in singing the songs of home.—Emma L. Kelly in Lippincott’s Magazine.