
Jason's partner in his canoe is the girl he loves, Jamie Dunavant, freshly returned from the States as she promised she would. A race to Nome has been announced, with a $20,000 prize. He and his brothers have been cheated out of their sawmill, and Jason has vowed to buy it back. Jason Hawthorn is itching to join the new rush. All the talk is of Nome, nearly two thousand miles away, where gold has been discovered in the beach sands. In the shadow of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City is burning, changing forever the lives of thousands in the Klondike gold fields. Together they'll face moose, bears, and the terrors of the subarctic winter.ĭown the Yukon: Amid the shouts and the cheers and the splashing of oars, it was pandemonium.
