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 288 
 
 THK ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN. 
 
 March 5, 1898. 
 
 IIIEKK is alwiiys soiiuthiiij^ attractive 
 about frontier life. To the (KwIIit of 
 the town it is a life of fresli air and 
 recreation. To tlie e.\|)erienceil pros- 
 pector it lirin^s the zest of frevdoni and 
 tile keen delij;lit of coiuiiierini; an ini- 
 coiKjueraiile nature. And even the 
 counterfeited dasiies into this life which 
 the |)ii(<toifrapli brinijs to the study 
 table and the eveninv; lamp are whiffs 
 
 of fraji;rance as spicy as they are wekmie. 
 
 Tlie edijes of Anurica have for many years furnished .Ameri- 
 cans with a limited measure ol deli;.;ht in natine's more rujj;i;ed 
 
 moods, but it has remained for a late popular movement to 
 
 discover that we possess a veri- 
 table wonderland upon our 
 
 Northwest border. 
 
 Alaska has been a field for 
 
 missionaries and an object of 
 
 summer excursions for sonic 
 
 years, but when tiie Klondike 
 
 rush of '97 was fairly on, not 
 
 one man in a hundred who set 
 
 out for the country knew oui;ht 
 
 of tlie land, and not one news- 
 
 pa|)er reader in a thousand who 
 
 followed the telei;r.iphic chronicle 
 
 of those lively events li.id any 
 
 conception of what the Skaiju.iy 
 
 and Dyea trails were in reality. 
 The illustrated publications of 
 
 our land have seen the \alue of 
 
 the photoijr.iph in picturini; to 
 
 the thousands of "shut-ins" the 
 
 realities of this newly famous 
 
 land, and possibly no recent 
 
 movement of lar^e bodies of men 
 
 have been so minutely chrystal- 
 
 ized into jewels of the photoij- 
 
 rapher's art ;is has been this last 
 
 nish to a newly heralded jjold 
 
 field. The rush of '4<> is and 
 
 will always remain a story highly 
 
 colored by the imaijination. 'i'lie 
 
 camera was not ready then, as 
 
 it is to-day, in every w.ilk of life to c.itcli ,Liid hold forever the 
 
 colli truth of hum.m movements. The p.encil was the jjreat 
 
 jiictiirin^i; agent of that day. 
 
 Hut in this newer and greater rush, throii;irii a strongly 
 
 Ruariled >;atew;iy of Nature's own Iniildinjj into a treasure 
 
 house reserved to this aj^e and ),'ener.iiion, the camera has 
 
 come as a stronger writer of histoy tli.in all the special corre- 
 spondents in the land. 
 
 No war correspondent on tlie edife of a battle ever caught 
 
 .NOKIII KM) OK "world" cut OFI- oN SKACUAY TRAM. 
 
 so clear ;i ijlimpse of the combatants, or sent home to a wait- 
 inyr public a more true anil unbiased a( count of events, than 
 has this child of later day science- the cimera. 
 
 .As views of frontier life alone the accompanyimi; illustrations 
 would possess ;i keen interest to the great reading public. 
 Hut they come to the reader with a double reiisli when they 
 picture the life along the main avenue into a fairy-land of to- 
 d;iy, whose discovery has set a worlil to talking, and has 
 thrown in motion an army ol men. 
 
 These \iew s were taken after the winter of '97-'y8 had set in, 
 ;ind show the gre;it trails just as the tirst rush into the Klon- 
 dike w.is halted by the coming of the snow king, 
 
 F-verything was against the prospector in his passage 
 through Nature's doorwav. lie found no ueicome at this 
 
 entrance to a land of gold, and 
 the closing of this first chapter 
 of the story of the Klondike was 
 desperately sad. Lack of prep- 
 aration before starting handi- 
 capped him, the roughness of the 
 trails Wore him out, and the 
 nuiltitude of nien ;ibout him in- 
 tensilied his discomfort. 
 
 The story of '98 will read in 
 a very different m.iiiner. Men 
 have Icirned to prepare more 
 jiroperly fortius journey, and the 
 brain of m,in has devised, and 
 the li.ind of m.in fashioned, great 
 iniprovemcnts in this doorway. 
 The photogr.iiilier will note these 
 iniprovemcnts with delight, for 
 no other agent lijis done more to 
 bring about these improvements 
 tli.in has the cuiiera. 
 
 The difference between written 
 ;md pictorial descriptions of 
 places we have not seen, especi- 
 ally when the pictures are the 
 cieatioii of .111 .ipparalus that 
 cannot lie, might be compared 
 not inaptly with the difference 
 between the g.inies of checkers 
 and chess. According to I'ills- 
 biiry, the fanvuis expert of the 
 game of chess, checkers is the more ditlicult of the two, for 
 said he, in che.ss a man can .v.v both .attack ;md defence, while 
 in checkers he can witness them only with the eyes of the 
 mind. To the prospective argonaut of the Klondike reliatile 
 pictures of the new land of gold iiiust be doublv welcome 
 itnd useful, for they serve to arm his mind with a cle.irer, more 
 complete, knowledge of the diflicullies he must expect to en- 
 counter — .iiid surmount, if the stuff of success is in his mental 
 or moral make-up. y\, J, Hi.irniK.N, Jr. 
 
March 5, 1898. 
 
 THE ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN. 
 
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