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The story takes place in the Yukon mountains around the time of the gold rush of 1898. Jack who is a young gold hungry man is the protagonist in the story. He is in search of his fathers claim. Jack doesn’t know how to get to his fathers claim and the only person that does I Alex Larson. Alex and his partner decide to help jack get to the claim. They have many obstacles trying to get to Jacks fathers. Alex is taking his friend that has died to be buried. They travel through the ridged mountains and the sled tips and sends Jack right into a frozen pond. Jack almost freezes to death. Alex builds a fire with the books that Jack packed. Later that night on