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.