Dedication

To ALL TRUE MEN AND WOMEN
Of the Outer Trails of the Yukon,
Where for Years the Author Lived and Travelled,
This Book is Affectionately Dedicated.

Epigraph

“Something lost beyond the Ranges,
Lost; and calling to you. Go.”

KIPLING

“She had grown, in her unstained seclusion, bright and pure as a first opening lilac, when it spreads its clear leaves to the sweetest dawn of May.”