GRR_00870b

• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Yukon; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16274coll15/id/2966

0 Mont (46) A family residence in Alaska was not necessarily a very elaborate affair, as may be inferred from the structure represented in this scene. A six by eight wall tent, supported by a couple of rude poles, with the inevitable Yukon stove, a cracker box or two and a roll of blankets completed the establishment, and yet the dwellers therein manifested a reasonable measure of contentment and endeavored to persuade themselves that they were simply enjoying an Outing in the forests. There were many families who joined in this crusade, in some of which there were several children, while not a few infants were found among the great company that made up the Yukon flotilla of 1898. In making the trip over the lakes and down the rver families usually proceeded in barges, upon a portion of which was constructed a permanent tent thus affording the maximum amount of comfort ana: convenience attainable during a voyage of this character. John P. Clum, LT. S. P. O. Inspector and Lecturer. Copyright, 1900, by B. L. Singley.