Steubenville Herald / August 10, 1897

A Miner Describes the Journey to the Klondike.

CALLS IT THE DEVIL’S OWN TRIP.

Dangers of Chilkat Pass -- The Place That Puts the Yellow Fear Into Many a Man’s Heart -- Camping in the Snow and Climbing Ice Mountains.

“The trip is surely the devil’s own. The man who wants the Yukon Gold should know what he is going to tackle before he starts. If there is an easy part of the trip, I haven’t struck it.”

Thus wrote Edgar Mizner of San Francisco last May, while on his way to the gold fields. It is worthy of note that though Mizner wrote very disparagingly of the trip and of the men who made it he persevered through all difficulties, and is now at Klondike.

“At Dyea there were but two houses,” he continues, “a store, and of course a saloon. So, when we landed on the beach and got out upon the snow and ice, we

A detail from a larger image of a Lakota Indian tipi camp in South Dakota in 1891. Photographed by John C. H. Grabill.

CHEYENNES, UTES, AND LESSER TRIBES GETTING READY FOR THE WARPATH.

New-York Times / July 2, 1885

FORT RENO, Indian Territory, July 2. -- The situation here regarding a possible Indian outbreak is one of the greatest suspense. The medicine making will be concluded to-night, and if the quality of the medicine is good there is not the slightest doubt that the young bucks will go on the warpath. If it is bad, peace is equally certain. Strong efforts are being made to bring about a combined resistance to the seizure of arms now in the hands of the Cheyennes, Kiowas, Comanches, and Caddos. If such a combination is effected by the Indians the result will be to bring between 2,000 and 3,000 fighting men into the field.

View larger. Looking north on Broadway in Skagway, Alaska, circa 1900. Photograph by Callarman. Buy fine-art print.