The Great Gold Rush

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names, I could hardly succeed. Let me take the case of Poo-Bah, for instance. The reader with a knowledge of the early days of Dawson accepting the story as historical, would fix as the original any one of half a dozen men in

markable stampede. The stories of corruption among the officials in Dawson are those which a visitor would have heard on every hand, an

petty larceny thieves and highway robbers, it is to be under

th, and mixed with. Should it appear I have given too much space to the humble economies of

the miner. So much has been written to compromise him, and so many im

thing in my story which has none other tha

old. For the story of the discovery of Franklin Gulch I am indebted to Mr. William Hartz, who also furnish

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