t any such
blot will foul the escutcheon of the United States. But if it be so, let
at least the memorial of their names remain. When the inhabited
wilderness has become an uninhabited wilderness, when the only people
who will ever make their homes in it are exterminated, when the
placer-gold is gone and the white men have gone also, when the last
interior Alaskan town is like Diamond City and Glacier City and Bearpaw
City and Roosevelt City; and Bettles and Rampart and Coldfoot; and
Cleary City and Delta City and Vault City and a score of others; let at
least the native names of these great mountains remain to show that
there once dwelt in the land a simple, hardy race who braved
successfully the rigors of its climate and the inhospitality of their
environment and flourished, until the septic contact of a superior race
put corruption into their blood. So this book shall end as it began.

[Illustration: Map Showing Route of the Stuck-Karstens Expedition to the
Summit of Mt. Denali (Mt. McKinley.) 1913]

Transcriber's Notes

Sidenotes were created from the unique headers on alternate pages of
the original text, with some minor amendments.

The following typos were corrected:

corrected: original: on page:

Iditarod Iditerod 5
La Voy LeVoy 41
La Voy Le Voy 97 (in footnote)
whatna whatna' 63 (twice)
nor or 103
Revillagigedo Revillegigedo 142
page 94 page 96 186

All Native American words were left with the accents given them
intact.

On page 38 a possible missing word "he" was not added due to
uncertainty about the author's intentions: "... but the dogs must be
tended, and the main food for them [he?] was yet to seek...."

The five instances of "base-camp" were changed to comply with common
usage: "base camp."

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