Robert W. Service 
Trail of 98 
A Northland Romance

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain:<br>Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane.<br>Strong for the red rage of battle; sane, for I harry them sore;<br>Send me men girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core;<br>Swift as the panther in triumph, fierce as the bear in defeat, <br>Sired of a bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace heat.<br>Send me the best of your breeding, lend me your chosen ones;<br>Them will I take to my bosom, them will I call my sons;<br>Them will I gild with my treasure, them will I glut with my meat;<br>But the others – the misfits, the failures – I trample under my feet.<br><br>- Songs of a Sourdough.