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Excerpt from The Gold Fields of Cape Nome, Alaska: Entered According to the Act of Congress, February 23, 1900, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C This book is published as a means of information for those who are eager to obtain a truthful description of the new Alaskan Gold Fields. I have endeavored to describe things as they really are, not as they might be represented by those, whose business it is to boom up the country regardless of truth, and for their own and other benefit. If the information herein obtained will be of same value to those who contemplate going to the new fields, this publication will serve one of its objects; another is to make the reader think before he undertakes a trip of privation and hardships of the severest kind, and if I can prevent to some extent, a repetition of the Klondike excitement, caused by exagerated newspaper accounts and which proved so disasterous to thousands of people, I will feel that this book has not been in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.