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21-year-old Jack London stood at the rail of the ship beside his 60-year-old brother-in-law,

James Shepard.

James was a grizzled Civil War veteran whose body bore the scars of prison camps and whose joints ached with rheumatism.

The past eight days had been a blur.

That's all it had taken for the youngster and the veteran

to leave their lives in California and race for Yukon territory in northwestern Canada.

News of a gold strike in the frozen heart of the Yukon had traveled down to America, and Jack

and James caught gold fever. James Shepard was married to Jack's stepsister, Eliza London, and Eliza caught the fever, too.

Eliza and James mortgaged their house to bankroll the mad dash to the gold strike,

and Eliza made Jack promise that he would take care of her husband.

Jack had no choice. Without their money,

he'd be watching from the docks of San Francisco as other men chased their fortunes. The promise

would haunt Jack through many of the 2,000 miles of journey ahead of them. There was a 1,500-mile

steamship journey up the Pacific coast of North America from San Francisco, California to Juneau, Alaska.

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