Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-26
ALASKA CALLS
EMERSON HOUGH
A 'TENDERF00T'
Author Did Not Go Five Miles
From Beaten Trail, Says
Dawson Paper.

DAWSON. Y. T, Oct. 25.-Emerson
Hough, author and "tenderfoot," who
said there was no big game in Alas
ka, did not get FIVE miles away from a
beaten trail while in the Northland,
according to The Dawson Daily News.
Mr.. Hough, While in st. Paul on his
return from the North, called Alaska
the most peaceable and desolate coun-
try on the face OF the globe, and ridi-
culed modern authors descriptions of
it.
Thank Heaven I am back in a
country where at least l run the dan
ger of being hit by an automobile, "
said Mr.. Hough. IT could go to bet
ter hunting grounds ten hours out of
st. Paul than In all Alaska"
AS for the Rat Portage trail, upon
which many OF the first gold seekers
lost their lives, Mr. Hough said:
why, l could guarantee to take a
man wearing a silk hat and patent
leather pumps over this trail and to
land him safe and sound in Dawson
without a scratch to mar the polish on
either"
Kept to the Beaten Path.
"
News has to say about Mr.. Hough:
Emerson Hough happened to travel
through thin strip of country along
the much frequented routes, and did
not get five miles off the beaten paths
of the Mckenzie or the Yukon, and
then has the audacity to slap the
Northland. He floated down the Nc
Kenzie River. followed the old trail to
the Porcupine, thence descended that
well-known stream and assembled the
Yukon by steamer. Theace he took
rail to the coast and returned to st.
Paul.
IF he Is correctly quoted, he can
not be~too severely rebuked for hair
trigger tongue methods. More peo-
pie are needed to build this empire,
and men who have access to the pub
lie prints should be most jealous to
see that they are not trapped by ir-
responsible writer's into making
statements that will injure the recla-
nation of these vast outlying terrific
ries.
Just Missed Caribou.
Emerson Hough travelled beaten
path, a circuit where game Is not to
be expected. Had he gone a mile or
two off that route he would have
found gamei abundance He was
| scarcely past Dawson when word came
that thousands OF caribou were trek
king through the hills fifteen to thir-
ty miles west of Dawson and cross
ing the Government road to Glacier
Creek. Dawsonites by the score went
| there In a day or less, and every man
brought back game.
"Stampeders returning from Chisa-
| ma report ptarmigan everywhere or
| the many trails so thick they can be
| killed with sticks. Moose are plenti'
| full on all the streams tributary tc
| the upper Yukon, and bears are nu-
merous on the old gold streams, as
| we'll as elsewhere in the Territory.
| Game Cheaper Than Beef.
Game is so plentiful in Yukon thai
a vast portion OF every days sales OF
meat in the markets Is game. The
| restaurants OF Dawson find game sc
common and cheap it sells for much
| less than beef, mutton, pork, chicken
or turkey. This is the case the year
round.
1.-The inexpensive orders in loca,
| restaurants always are those for carl
| bou, moose and game birds. Emer-
son Hough was here and ate in DaW-
son restaurants and saw the menus
and lows this to be the case.
Since he did not stop in Dawson
long enough 90, walk beyond shouting
| distance OF the town. and since he
| hurried through the Northland like 8
scared wolf, he should be more mod
est in making his statements to the
| outside world
It's a long way from Dawson to
st. Paul and Chicago, but men who &c
there needn't think they can make
| reckless statements and see the bal
derdash ACKNOWLEDGMENT