The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 104National Geographic Society, 1953 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! " they cried . " Sixty- eight Klondikers bring back a ton of gold ! " It was the biggest strike in history , the papers said , a stream of gold in Canada's Yukon that flowed richer and richer as news of it flashed ...
... Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! " they cried . " Sixty- eight Klondikers bring back a ton of gold ! " It was the biggest strike in history , the papers said , a stream of gold in Canada's Yukon that flowed richer and richer as news of it flashed ...
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... gold . Gold was reported in the Yukon as early as the 1850's by Hudson's Bay Company officers , and by 1887 there were 250 prospectors in the district . But it wasn't until August 16 , 1896 , that George Washington Carmack , together ...
... gold . Gold was reported in the Yukon as early as the 1850's by Hudson's Bay Company officers , and by 1887 there were 250 prospectors in the district . But it wasn't until August 16 , 1896 , that George Washington Carmack , together ...
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... gold prospectors a half century earlier , wartime supplies arrived in Alaska's Skagway by the Inside Passage . Here an air compressor , jeeps , ambulance , tractor , and trucks roll toward Whitehorse over the narrow - gauge White Pass ...
... gold prospectors a half century earlier , wartime supplies arrived in Alaska's Skagway by the Inside Passage . Here an air compressor , jeeps , ambulance , tractor , and trucks roll toward Whitehorse over the narrow - gauge White Pass ...
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Fact Finding for Tomorrows Planes A Little Faninabox Wind | v |
All America Mingles in the Prairie State | ix |
Rip Van Winkle of the Underground North Americas Much Misunder | xii |
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