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STACKS OF YELLOW METAL!

some have $5,000, Many have more, and

a Few Bring Out $100,000 Each.

THE STEAMER CARRIES $700,000

(Anderson, 44)

This showed just how the media portrayed the events happening

throughout the rush. A few people saw the land and rush in a different

light, as we see in Robert Service’s poem:

The Land God Forgot

The lonely sunsets flare forlorn

Down valleys dreadly desolate;

The lordly mountains soar in scorn

As still as death, as stern as fate

The lonely sunsets flame and die;

The giant valleys gulp the night;

The monster mountains scrape the sky,

Where eager stars are diamond-bright.

So gaunt against the gibbous moon,

Piercing the silence velvet piled,

A lone wolf howls his ancient rune-

The fell arch-spirit of the Wild.

O outcast land! O leper land!

Let the lone wolf-cry all express

The hate insensate of thy hand,

Thy heart’s abysmal loneliness.

(Service, 11)

This poem showed how a person who experienced the terrors of the

Great North felt about the land. Many people went to the Northern

Alaska-Yukon border in search of gold, and instead found themselves.