Not that I've ever claimed to be a great poet, but, hey, I did have a limerick in Town Topics in May of 1900. The Canadian government is keeping its claim to most of the wooded areas of the Yukon. Now, stream beds, that's a different story. A guy could strike a little claim in one of these areas and do some panning for a couple of years, no problem. Only the Indians live in villages.
White men live in mining towns or out on the trail in trading posts.
This is a moot point, Bob. Come February in Alaska, nobody sees anyone amidst those blizzards. If you go out into a mess like that and are crazy enough to stand still long enough to watch the snow coming down, you're gonna be frozen in that same spot until the spring thaws. Icks-nay on the horse, pal. Sled-dogs, wolves, malamutes, they're all believable, but nobody's going to buy into the idea of a guy riding a horse through the Yukon in winter.