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Alaska Highway, 12, 17, 18, 28 mines, 18
Athapaskan peoples, 14, 24 mountains, 8

caribou, 11 northern lights, 9
Carcross Desert, 4 Northwest Territories, 16

Dawson City, 4, 7, 20, 28 permafrost, 8
prospectors, 4
gold, 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 27
panning for, 19 sourtoe cocktail, 20
sourdough bread, 27
Hudson’s Bay Company, 15
Tlingit, 14, 21, 24, 25
ice fields, 8 folklore, 25
Indigenous Peoples, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22,

24, 25, 29 wildlife, 11
Whitehorse, 4, 7, 12, 13, 20, 28
Klondike Gold Rush, 4, 12, 16, 17, 18,
22, 23, 27 Yukon River, 4, 12, 15

about the author

James Bow

James Bow is the author of more than 50 nonfiction books
for children. He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo
in Ontario, Canada, and is a freelance writer and editor. He
currently lives outside Toronto with his wife and two daughters.

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