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

DAWSON, Y. r., 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
leturn 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 ! am back in
country where at least | run the dan
ger of being hit by an automobile"
said Mr.. Hough, Il 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, ] 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.
Here is what The Dawson Daily
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 f1oated down the Nc
Kenzie River. followed the old trail to
the Porcupine. thence descended that
Arpl1 Lxnnun str and a seconded thp
Yukon by steamer. Thence he took
rail to the coast and returned to St
Paul
III he is correctly quoted, he can
not be too severely rebul<ed 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 game in abundance. He was
SCdTttIN past DdNSOtl NHtH WoTu CAME
that thousands of caribou were Il elk
king through the hills fifteen to thir-
ty miles west of Dawson and cross
ing the Government road to Glacier
Greek Dawsonites by the score went
there in day or less, and every man
brought back game.
| "StampeGers returning from Chisa-
ma report ptarmigan everywhere on
! the many trails so thick they can be
| killed with sticks. Moose are plenti-
! full on all the streams tributary to
! the upper Yukon, and bears are nu-
merous on the old gold streams. as
! well as elsewhere in the Territory.
Game Cheaper Than Beef.
Game is so plentiful in Yukon thai
| vast portion of every days sales OF
meat. in the markets is game. The
! restaurants of Dawson find game SO
common and cheap it sells for much
| less than beef mutton, pork, chicken
or turkey. This is the case the year
round.
The inexpensive orders in local
| restaurants always are those for Carl
bou,. moose and game birds Elmer
son Hough was here and ate in Daw-
| son restaurants and saw the menus
and knows this to be the case.
Since he did not stop in Dawson
| long enough to walk beyond shouting
distance of the town, and since he
! hurried through the Northland like o
scared wolf. he should be more mod =
| est in making his statements to the
| outside world.
TITS long way from Dawson to
ST. Paul and Chicago, but men who go
there needn't think they can make
reckless statements and see the bal