A Land Gone Lonesome

An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River

By: Dan O'Neill

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Paperback | 26 June 2007 | Edition Number 1

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In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off down the majestic Yukon River, beginning at Dawson, Yukon Territory, site of the Klondike gold rush. The journey he makes to Circle City, Alaska, is more than a voyage into northern wilderness, it is an expedition into the history of the river and a record of the inimitable inhabitants of the region, historic and contemporary. A literary kin of John Muir's Travels in Alaska and John McPhee's Coming into the Country, A Land Gone Lonesome is the book on Alaska for the new century. Though he treks through a beautiful and hostile wilderness, the heart of O'Neill's story is his exploration of the lives of a few tough souls clinging to the old ways-even as government policies are extinguishing their way of life. More than just colorful anachronisms, these wilderness dwellers-both men and women-are a living archive of North American pioneer values. As O'Neill encounters these natives, he finds himself drawn into the bare-knuckle melodrama of frontier life-and further back still into the very origins of the Yukon river world. With the rare perspective of an insider, O'Neill here gives us an intelligent, lyrical-and ultimately, probably the last-portrait of the river people along the upper Yukon.

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"A colorful and meandering portrait.... O'Neill casts a mold of the Yukon landscape before nature takes back the last human footprint."
"O'Neill is a talented historian.... His witty travelogue includes epic themes of self-reliance, heroism and humanity."
"The reportage is cool and bright as the flowing waters of the Yukon. Another writerly gold strike in the Klondike."

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Dawson City Yukon Territory	p. 1
Moosehide	p. 9
Cnandindu River	p. 17
Fifteenmile River	p. 23
Halfway House	p. 25
Cassiar Creek	p. 27
Hammer Bar/Sunset Creek	p. 30
Fortymile River and Forty Mile	p. 31
Coal Creek	p. 40
Old Man and Old Woman Rocks	p. 41
Mel's Camp	p. 42
Stan Zuray	p. 46
Bill Fliris/Ichthyophonus Hoferi	p. 49
Dozen Islands	p. 53
Fanning Creek	p. 54
Poppy Creek	p. 55
Robert Cameron's Cabin	p. 57
Bio Camp	p. 58
The Border	p. 69
Steve Ulvi and Lynette Roberts	p. 60
Eagle	p. 65
Seymour Able	p. 69
Calico Bluff	p. 80
Seventymile River	p. 81
Seventymile City and Star City	p. 86
Tatonduk River, Heinie Miller	p. 86
Dick Cook	p. 89
Wood Islands	p. 121
Montauk Bluff	p. 123
Pollack Joe	p. 126
Nation River/Dave Evans	p. 129
Nation City	p. 140
Taylor's Place	p. 141
Ivy City	p. 142
Rock Creek	p. 143
Glenn Creek	p. 147
Seymour's Old Camp	p. 148
Tne Steam Tractor	p. 151
George Beck's Cabin at Washington Creek	p. 152
Washington Creek Roadhouse	p. 152
Charley's Village	p. 154
Sarge Waller's Cabin	p. 155
Ricketts's Cabin	p. 156
Biederman's	p. 157
Kandik Trappers	p. 162
Randy Brown	p. 165
Dirty Fred's Cabin	p. 173
Mail Trail Way Station	p. 175
Crazy Man Island	p. 176
Ed Gelvin's A-Frame	p. 178
Charley River/Charlie Kidd	p. 180
Ames Cabin	p. 183
Sam Creek/Carolyn Kelly	p. 189
Slaven's Roadhouse Coal Creek	p. 196
Coal Creek Dredge and Camp	p. 197
Woodchopper Roadhouse	p. 200
Woodchopper Creek/Joe Vogler	p. 201
Eureka Creek/The Other Fortymile	p. 213
Falcons and Jaguars	p. 220
Shahnyaati'	p. 228
Into Circle City	p. 230
Afterword	p. 238
Index	p. 245
Acknowledgments	p. 243
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