Preface: Jumping Off the End of the Earth Note on Original Sources Part I. Romantic Voyage : A Tour of Southeastern Alaska Fort Wrangel, Alaska, August 8, 1879 / John Muir A Great Day in Sitka / Charles Hallock The Patriarch and His Little Detective / C.C. Hine The Alaska Barnum's Dancers / Septima M. Collis Riding the Rails through White Pass Canyon / Charles M. Taylor, Jr. Part II. Untamed Alaska : Into the Vast Unknown Chilcat Mission, Haines, Alaska / Caroline Willard Living Upon the Country / Lieutenant Henry T. Allen Escape from Icy Bay / H.W. Seton Karr Living Off the Enemy / John Bremner Whaling with the Fleet of 1887 / Herbert L. Aldrich Perilous Crawl Up the Chilkoot / Harry de Windt One Night on Valdez Glacier / Captain William Abercrombie From Nowhere to Nowhere / Robert Dunn Invitation to a Card Game / Agnes Herbert Mistakes at Sixty Below / Hudson Stuck Part III. Inexhaustible Optimism : The Mad Rush for Gold Outfit for an Argonaut / Ernest Ingersoll Heartbreak on the White Pass / Robert C. Kirk Ho for the Land of Gold! / Mary E. Hitchcock The Mosquitoes' Bugle on the Koyukuk / J.D. Winchester A Bureaucrat Comes to Call / Josiah Edward Spurr Pluck on the Kowak / Joseph Grinnell No Time for Sonatas / May Kellogg Sullivan Playing for Stakes / M. Clark The Great White Silence / Edward J. Devine The Alien God of Gold / Addison M. Powell On the Other Side of Disenchantment Bay / Arthur Arnold Dietz Twenty-One Days from Rampart City / John F. Stacey Epilogue: A Cabin on the Edge of the Forest Chronology of Alaska History through 1910
