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id: 259
author: Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
title: Ballads of a Cheechako
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  Men from the sands of the Sunland; men from the woods of the West; Men from the farms and the cities, into the Northland we pressed. Two lone men on detachment, standing for law on the trail; Undismayed in the vastness, wise with the wisdom of old-- Out of the night hailed a half-breed telling a pitiful tale, White man starving and crazy on the banks of the Nordenscold.


id: 35824
author: Pratt, J. G.
title: All about the Klondyke gold mines
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flesch: 80
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summary:
  Two months of work in the water has realized more than any six months heretofore known in the history of gold mining. You will find more gold in circulation in Dawson than you ever saw in all your life.


id: 41158
author: Ingersoll, Ernest
title: Golden Alaska: A Complete Account to Date of the Yukon Valley
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sentence: 1432
flesch: 78
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  By way of the seaports of Dyea or Shkagway, over mountain passes, afoot or a-horseback, and down the upper Yukon River and down the lakes and rivers by raft, skiff and steamboat. The Yukon River froze up on Oct. 28 and broke up on May 17.


id: 10043
author: Ladue, Joseph
title: Klondyke Nuggets A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest
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sentence: 1154
flesch: 73
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  His opinion was that it might be navigable for small stern-wheel steamers for many miles. Wherever there is a lake or a long stretch of deep water river navigation the company has small freight steamers which ply back and forward during the summer between the portage points or shallows.


id: 21652
author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester
title: Klondike Nuggets, and How Two Boys Secured Them
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sentence: 1784
flesch: 81
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  There ain't many men as know when they have enough, was the philosophical observation of Jeff. Jeff Graham was an Argonaut who crossed the plains in 1849, while he was yet in his teens, and settling in California, made it his permanent home.


id: 1596
author: London, Jack
title: Smoke Bellew
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sentence: 3292
flesch: 93
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summary:
  All about Smoke men tripped and fell, and several times he pitched forward himself, jarringly, on hands and knees. Somewhere in him was the strain of the hard, and he repeated over and over to himself that what other men could do, he could.


id: 60296
author: Pringle, George Charles Fraser
title: Tillicums of the Trail Being Klondike Yarns Told to Canadian Soldiers Overseas by a Sourdough Padre
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  I was in the lead and because of the general scarcity of good men I was hitting a fast pace. I can hear Major Shillington's steadying voice when he thought he saw trouble ahead in our arguments, Gunn with the happy laugh, Langham bringing us down to cold, hard facts, and the others good men all, with whom I companied those days.


id: 23732
author: Cross, Victoria
title: A Girl of the Klondike
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words: 50832
sentence: 2427
flesch: 83
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summary:
  At last Stephen moved away from the door and wandered disconsolately down the row. The girl said nothing, and when Stephen glanced around at her he saw she was regarding him with astonished eyes under elevated eyebrows.


id: 2377
author: London, Jack
title: The Son of the Wolf
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sentence: 3016
flesch: 89
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summary:
  In fact, it showed such cozy promise that many men elected to be his partner and to come and live with him. When the yearning sickness came upon him, he was not surprised, for he was a practical man and had seen other men thus stricken.


id: 44038
author: Spurr, Josiah Edward
title: Through the Yukon Gold Diggings: A Narrative of Personal Travel
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sentence: 1813
flesch: 71
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summary:
  This work can only be carried on in the summer-time, when the water is not frozen, so that the warm months are the time for hustling, day and night shifts being employed, with as many men on each as can work conveniently together. Other men were in Juneau also, bound for the Yukon,--not like the hordes that the Klondike brought up later from the States, many of whom turned back before even crossing the passes, but small parties of determined men.


id: 42611
author: Edwards, William Seymour
title: In to the Yukon
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sentence: 2353
flesch: 76
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summary:
  Many men and even women have made their millions and gone out. Along the roadside we also saw many men digging and rocking for gold, who have leased a few square yards or an acre or two on a royalty and who are said to be working a lay.


id: 27453
author: Goodchild, George
title: Colorado Jim
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sentence: 4663
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Colorado Jim bound for Europe--London! Colorado Jim, who had tackled most of the bad men around Medicine Bow, and had tamed the wildest bronchos that ever roved prairie, was lamentably lacking where the fair sex was concerned.


id: 28551
author: Garland, Hamlin
title: The Trail of the Goldseekers: A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse
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words: 57414
sentence: 3099
flesch: 86
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summary:
  The east is gray with coming day,_ _ The citizens, so far as visible, formed a queer collection of old men addicted to rum.


id: 21377
author: Fenn, George Manville
title: To Win or to Die: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze
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words: 68182
sentence: 4020
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Now then, open the door just a little way, so that you can squeeze out and get hold of the dog, Mr Dallas. What do you say, Mr Dallas? asked Tregelly.


id: 35486
author: Jarvis, W. H. P. (William Henry Pope)
title: The Great Gold Rush: A Tale of the Klondike
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flesch: 87
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summary:
  They are great men, great workers, those yellow-legs! Do as many men come over this Pass as over the White Pass? More!


id: 36577
author: Roper, Edward
title: A Claim on Klondyke: A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado
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flesch: 85
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summary:
  With such discussions, and much beside of purely local interest--such as how Bill the Butcher's claim was looking, and if Tom the Tinker had found any coarse gold in the hole he had last sunk, or what the chances were of Mississippi Sam and his partner the Baltimore Oriole finding good gold up at the creek-head where they had gone prospecting, when they may be expected back, and so forth,--with such topics of interest, I say, as these the time passed quickly. I have tried to cook this fish in various ways, to get him to eat, but it is useless; he has had nothing but tea for many days--he's dying of starvation!


id: 46503
author: Thompson, Arthur R. (Arthur Ripley)
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flesch: 81
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title:
  Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail Being the Adventures of Two New England Boys in Alaska and the Northwest Territory

summary:
  David felt instinctively that he had to deal with as mean, sour, and selfish a person as it had ever been his lot to meet, and had not the slightest doubt that the character of the master, as is often the case, could be accurately surmised from the temper of his dog. Uncle Will!


id: 41530
author: MacDonald, Alexander
title: In Search of El Dorado: A Wanderer's Experiences
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  Leaving Mac and Phil to attend to culinary matters, I went out with Stewart, and, after lowering him into the Stygian gloom, kept watch by the windlass until the night closed over and Phil announced that tea was ready. Several times during the progress of events Mac and I endeavoured to make an unobtrusive exit, but all to no purpose.


id: 38635
author: Bindloss, Harold
title: Delilah of the Snows
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flesch: 85
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  He had graciously been permitted to play for a somewhat exclusive club during the afternoon, as well as to make himself useful handing round tea and carrying chairs, because he played tennis well, and the president's wife had said that while there was a risk in admitting that kind of people, young Ingleby evidently knew his place, and was seldom guilty of presumption. At last Ingleby turned to her.


id: 22063
author: Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
title: The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
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flesch: 94
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summary:
  Holding the wriggling, writhing little man in his powerful arms he plunged him heels over head in the muddy current of the creek. Well, old man, if you can't be good, be careful; and if you want me any time, ring up the town station.


