North of Fifty-Three

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Rex Beach. North of Fifty-Three

North of Fifty-Three

Table of Contents

The Thaw at Slisco’s

Bitter Root Billings, Arbiter

The Shyness of Shorty

The Test

Where Northern Lights Come Down O’ Nights

The Scourge

THE END

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Rex Beach

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Arctic storms have an even sameness; the intense cold, the heartless wind which augments tenfold the chill of the temperature, the air thick and dark with stinging flakes rushing by in an endless cloud. A drifting, freezing, shifting eternity of snow, driven by a ravening gale which sweeps the desolate, bald wastes of the Northland.

The little party toiled through the smother till they reached the “egloos” under the breast of the tall, coast bluffs, where coughing Eskimos drilled patiently at ivory tusks and gambled the furs from their backs at stud-horse poker.

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