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Identifier: outing51newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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f who controlled all the packing of goods into that country. Having succeeded in enabling white miners to enter the Yukon country without being attacked or held up, the Chilkats were won over from violent hostility to such terms of admiring friendship for a strong man that they made him a chief. This honor pleased Healy because after he had fought the Blackfeet in Montana, they respected him to the extent of making him a warrior of the Elk band. He had twice proved that an honest enemy can become the best kind of a friend. For three years Captain Healy explored the coast of Alaska in those early days, looking for passes into the interior. Hew as three times shipwrecked, but escaped to join the first gold rush into that country. He saw the possibilities of the territory, and advocated a railroad over White Passso far ahead of his time that the miners laughed at him as a crazy-headed fool. When gold was discovered on Forty Mile Creek, Captain Healy came out of the wilderness long enough to organize a trad-
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John J. Healy—pioneering company which pushed its agents up the Yukon and locked horns with the powerful Alaska Commercial Company which wished to keep the miners out and preserve the territory as a furtrading country. When gold was found on the Yukon, Captain Healy was ready for business with a fleet of river steamers. By this time he was an old timer in Alaska, and was considered the best posted man in the territory. It was he who suggested to Baron deLobel, the French engineer, the monumental idea of The Trans-Alaskan-Siberian-Railway, with a tunnel beneath Behring Straits. Captain Healy is not a visionary, and he believes that some day will see a million population in Alaska, and the brown tundras of Eastern Siberia covered with a vast and busy multitude of settlers getting rich from the mineral deposits. Then the railroad will become a reality. Captain Healy has lived to see more startling dreams than this come true. A pioneer who has beheld great states built out of a wilderness wherein

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  • bookid:outing51newy
  • bookyear:1885
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Leisure
  • booksubject:Sports
  • booksubject:Travel
  • bookpublisher:_New_York___Outing_Pub__Co__
  • bookcontributor:Tisch_Library
  • booksponsor:Boston_Library_Consortium_Member_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:378
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  • bookcollection:blc
  • bookcollection:americana
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