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Garland's ItineraryHamlin Garland's route through British Columbia and into the gold country can be traced on the map from Garland's fictionalized account, The Long Trail (New York: Macmillan, 1907). The following place names are mentioned in Trail of the Goldseekers (south to north): 

[May 3] Ashcroft Clinton Hat Creek 159 Mile House Lake La Hache Soda Creek (Fraser River) Quesnelle Blackwater Muddy River Tchincut Lake Nechaco River Old Fort Fraser Endako (source) Burns Lake Bulkley River [June1] Chock Lake Morricetown Hagellgate Hazleton (Skeena River) Kisgagash Mountains Kuldo Nasse River [July 1] Stikeen River Hotailub Mountains Telegraph Creek Glenora (Stikeen River) Wrangell White Pass [September] Bennett Lake Tagish Lake Atlin Lake Taku City

A hundred years later you could cover much of the same ground by following highway 97 north from Kamloops to Prince George, connecting with highway 35 west to the junction with highway 37, then north to cross the Stikine (Stikeen) River on roughly the same latitude as Juneau, Alaska. With the summer slipping away, it was at this point, at Telegraph Creek, that Garland decided to descend the Stikine southward to Wrangell, in order to follow the coast north to Skagway and return to the interior at Lake Bennett, reaching Atlin Lake and Taku before starting the homeward journey. The return trip carried Garland and "Ladrone" by boat to Seattle and thence by train to Wisconsin.