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  • The first break-up of spring found the party following the ice-run of Elk River.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • You remember when we foregathered on the Tanana, four years come next ice-run?

    THE WHITE SILENCE 2010

  • The turbid water lashed by on the heels of the ice-run.

    CHAPTER 24 2010

  • The first break-up of spring found the party following the ice-run of Elk River.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • The former was even then being sledded across Chilcoot Pass by Indians and dogs, and would come down the Yukon in the early summer after the ice-run.

    Chapter 2 2010

  • After the ice-run, we got into a canoe and paddled down to the Yukon, and down the Yukon to

    That Spot 2010

  • After the ice-run, we got into a canoe and paddled down to the Yukon, and down the Yukon to Dawson, stopping to feed up for a week at the cabins at the mouth of Henderson Creek.

    That Spot 2010

  • You remember when we foregathered on the Tanana, four years come next ice-run?

    The White Silence 2010

  • D'ye recollect the time she shot the Moosehorn Rapids to pull you and me off that rock, the bullets whipping the water like hailstones? — and the time of the famine at Nuklukyeto? — or when she raced the ice-run to bring the news?

    The White Silence 2010

  • Disregarding the possibilities of the ice-run, they had fittingly demonstrated their inefficiency by their choice of the island on which they located.

    AT THE RAINBOW'S END 2010

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