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"Hudson Stuck's Voyages on the Yukon and its Tributaries is essential reading before leaving for any of these rivers." -Paddling the Yukon River (2005)"A talented author, writing five books on Alaska...first successful climb of...Mt. McKinley...staunch defender of the Indian." -Cry in the Wilderness (2011)"Stuck... and Native assistant traveled along the Yukon River...stopping at Native fish camps and villages, mining camps, and towns." -Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son (2017)"In winter Stuck traveled by dogsled and in summer on a 32-foot boat...covered the basin of the Yukon River...through the Middle of Alaska from east to west." -In Pursuit of Alaska (2013)Hudson Stuck (1863 – 1920) traveled to Alaska from Texas becoming a missionary, social reformer, and mountain climber. With Harry P. Karstens, he co-led the first expedition to successfully climb Mount McKinley. Dr. Stuck traveled in his steam launch Pelican along the Yukon River and its tributaries for ten summers, covering in that time about 30,000 miles and noting all the way the things that seemed to him most important, such as the regimen of the waterways, the forests, plains, flora, fauna, climatic conditions, mines and miners, settlements, natives, and so on. We may consider this book as a fairly complete summary of Alaska, in most of its aspects.This book is a complement to his fascinating work, "Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog-Sled," in which winter traveling experiences of a tireless missionary are set forth. From Whitehorse in Canada, reached by one hundred and ten miles of rail from the Pacific, the present Yukon journey of two thousand two hundred miles to the ocean begins with a little steamboat pushing ahead of her at first a troublesome barge which she later jack-knives around sharp points and generally manoeuvres in a masterly way. On the Yukon tributaries the mission gasoline launch, Pelican, with the author standing for hours at the wheel while she slowly grinds up stream is the sight-seeing craft which moves through scenery and among sparsely scattered peoples whose respective beauty and strangeness are here interestingly depicted, with Dr. Stuck as an ideal guide and interpreter.The windings of the Porcupine, Chandalar, Tanana, Iditarod and Koyukuk rivers are the threads upon which the author strings gems of mission reminiscences, adventures near to thrills, comments upon screech owls, the wonderful salmon, nature's greatest gorge, the glacier, owls and rabbits and wolves again, in "divagations" which he apologizes for but which his readers will applaud.Dr. Stuck has spent fourteen years in th's land of gold and glamor and traveled many thousand miles not only in boats but also by dog team. There are few living men who have seen more of our Arctic empire than has he. He was present during the Klondike rush of '97.
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