The Yukon In 1812, a coureur du bois, having strayed rather far north, reached what would one day be known as Dawson City. He caught a fever from drinking moose-polluted water, and in his fevered dreams, had many prophetic visions. Among them was a stunning tableau: a woman dressed only in a corset and stockings, wielding a crystal goblet filled with red wine. She proclaimed stentoriously, "My name is Yuki!" and then turned into some sort of wolfish-looking dog. While the territory was named because of the legend that sprung up from the fur runner's fulsome retellings, there are those who claim that the trapper's vision was actually fulfilled by a madam from San Francisco during the Klondike bauxite rush of 1896. The Yukon currently contains 800 people, 900 sled dogs, 50 polar bears, and some ten thousand antlered ruminants. Its chief export is the potato, but imports are rather more common.
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In 1812, a coureur du bois, having strayed rather far north, reached what would one day be known as Dawson City. He caught a fever from drinking moose-polluted water, and in his fevered dreams, had many prophetic visions. Among them was a stunning tableau: a woman dressed only in a corset and stockings, wielding a crystal goblet filled with red wine. She proclaimed stentoriously, "My name is Yuki!" and then turned into some sort of wolfish-looking dog. While the territory was named because of the legend that sprung up from the fur runner's fulsome retellings, there are those who claim that the trapper's vision was actually fulfilled by a madam from San Francisco during the Klondike bauxite rush of 1896. The Yukon currently contains 800 people, 900 sled dogs, 50 polar bears, and some ten thousand antlered ruminants. Its chief export is the potato, but imports are rather more common.