Daw·son

(dô′sən)

A town of western Yukon Territory, Canada, at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers. A boom town during the Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s, it was the territorial capital from 1898 to 1951.

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Dawson

(ˈdɔːsən)

(Placename) a town in NW Canada, in the Yukon on the Yukon River: a boom town during the Klondike gold rush (at its height in 1899). Pop: 1251 (2001)

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Daw•son

(ˈdɔ sən)

n.

1. Sir John William, 1820–99, Canadian geologist.

2. William Levi, 1899–1990, U.S. composer and conductor.

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Dawson - a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike

Yukon Territory, Yukon - a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s

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Dawson, and gave his opinions with a judicious freedom.

Dawson will be obliged to acknowledge that there is no excuse for not employing her.

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The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journey, per steamboat, below St.

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I came over Chilcoot Pass with two thousand letters for Dawson. I was letter carrier.

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Tiny sold her hotel, invested half her money in Dawson building lots, and with the rest she developed her claim.

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Back in Dawson, though he remained true to his word and never touched hand to pick and shovel, he worked as hard as ever in his life.

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With four hundred miles of trail still between him and Dawson, he could ill afford to have madness break out among his dogs.

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In the fall of the year, when the first snows were falling and mush-ice was running in the river, Beauty Smith took passage for himself and White Fang on a steamboat bound up the Yukon to Dawson. White Fang had now achieved a reputation in the land.

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"Will you sign a paper to the effect that you shift for yourself as soon as you get to Dawson?" the business one demanded.

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My name's Dawson, Joe Dawson, an' I'm tryin' to scare up a laundryman."

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His first marriage with the daughter of the noble Binkie had been made under the auspices of his parents; and as he often told Lady Crawley in her lifetime she was such a confounded quarrelsome high-bred jade that when she died he was hanged if he would ever take another of her sort, at her ladyship's demise he kept his promise, and selected for a second wife Miss Rose Dawson, daughter of Mr.

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Of course we stuck by him, I and Dawson, who, with his wife, used to do the book-work and the managing.

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