globe-travelers

Updated: May 21, 2025

To borrow again from Dunham, here were globe-travelers, men who had "panned from Peru to Point Barrow," now in August "cross-cutting a cussed cold creek," who would say, "There's no use telling the people at home about this country; they'd think you were lying."

Lanier McKee - The Land of Nome: A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea: gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and: the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901)