The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of Which facts about the Yukon gold rush connect to the
ice. On top of this ice were as many feet of snow. It was ideas in this excerpt from "To Build a Fire"? Check all
all pure white, rolling in gentle undulations where the ice that apply.
jams of the freeze-up had formed. North and south, as
far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white, save for Prospectors traveled along the Yukon River
a dark hairline that curved and twisted from around the
Winters in the Yukon were snowy
spruce-covered island to the south, and that curved and w
twisted away into the north, where it disappeared behind Some prospectors died from the cold
another spruce-covered island.
-"To Build a Fire." The gold rush started in 1897.
Jack London The Yukon territory was sparsely populated