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A winter trek through the North Cascades reveals a landscape of stunning beauty marred by the desperate, thieving misery of the failing gold camps.
“It seems too bad, after men have worked so hard to get their supplies this far, and then have some long, lean, hungry devil eat them all up in one night—gumboots, mining tools and all. He must have eaten them—he surely would not pack them away.”
A Seattle prospecting party seeking a Skagit River mine nearly perishes in a brutal trek through Whatcom County’s mountain wilderness.
“If you can imagine an unbroken wilderness stretching for ninety miles over mountains, down canyons and through dense swamps, the land covered with snow from three to five feet deep... you can grasp in a small way the terrors that were before us.”
A logger is killed by a falling tree, fulfilling a premonition voiced by his son just moments before.
“The son asked the father if he was not afraid the tree would fall on them? The father said he was not.”
A husband returns from a hard day's work in Rockport to find his home empty and his life shattered.
“Hall discovered completely alone that the cabin had been cleaned out.”
A merchant from Ruby City visits Seattle to lobby merchants for a new wagon road, hoping to bypass the reliance on British Columbia for trade and supplies.
“We would all prefer patronizing Seattle merchants for we are Americans.”
Prospector J. C. Rouse details the rugged reality of life at the headwaters of the Skagit, where miners hope for a railroad to unlock hidden silver.
“At that time and for three years afterwards he had to pack everything, food, tools, etc., twenty-five miles on his back.”
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