The Yukoner Magazine 1 Issue No. 13 November 1999 From the Editor 4 The Mail Run 5 I Married the North, by Elizabeth Reid 8 Hard-Luck Henry, by Robert Service 18 Coming Out of the Cold, by Pete Esser 20 The Sinking of the Princess Sophia, by Don Sawatsky 29 Joe Loutchan and Gang, photo by Richard Harrington 39 More Grab Samples, by R.C. Coutts 40 Curtis, Gold Rush Photographer, by W.C. Betts 43 Building the White Pass Railway, Part Two, by W.J. Swanson 50 The Goldseeker, Part Seven, by Sam Holloway 58 From the Publisher 66 Cover photo: Lorraine Marshall at Silver City, Yukon (a ghost town on Kluane Lake, accessible from the Alaska Highway). Photo by John Hatch. Old Dodgie, Yukoner Magazine office & print shop, and the editor. The Yukoner Magazine 4 When you grow older, there are two things that give out on a person: the first is memory and... I can’t re- member what the second thing is. But I do remember a story I heard Published four times at the Carcross Cut-off the other day annually by: A couple got downsized from GreenInk Publishing, their jobs and were raising chickens Whitehorse, Yukon. for a living, selling eggs all over the Canadian Publications place. The wife lost one of her gold Mail Registration nugget earrings and later they found No. 08098 it inside a chicken they had killed for Postage paid at their supper. It seems that chickens Whitehorse, Yukon like shiny things. Last spring the couple headed for the Klondike with e-mail: 200 chickens and turned them loose
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