16 YEARS YOUNG SCROOGE MEDUCK HAS TRAVELED THE GLOBE SEEKING HIG FORTUNE! || |, || Hig Seared For RICHES Has TAUGHT HM MANY |” HARD LESSONG WHICH HAVESHAPEO HIS ‘i PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE | QUEST HAS PLIT HIM ON THE ROAD 7 THE AME NORLDS LAST FRONTIER FOR, rT! SCROOGE HAS LIVEDALIFEOF POVERTY AND FAILURE, 60 FAR. ‘SO THATS ALABKAL AND ACROSS THE COASTAL MOUNTAINS, CANADA! TIME TO COLLECT MY BACK Pay AND GET GOING! FINALLY--THE LAND OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS! T'VE STOKED BOILERS THE WHOLE 7500 MILES FROM PERTH GET HERE! SKAGWAY, re WN 4 | THERE Y'GO, MATE -~ $1001 BUTT HATES T! LOSE YA! YOU WUZ THE HARDEST WORKER EVER HADL GORRY, CAPIN! TM) NOTA COAL CHUCKER - I'M A GOL. - D. HUNTER! ‘AN ARGONAWT. EH? GOOD ON You! BUT HAVE You ARRANGED ARIDE 10 SHORE? THE MUD FLAT KEEPS US A GOOD HALF MILE, = Loan NOTIME! TLL HAFTA IMPROVIE/IMIN A HURRY! I STILL NEED BUY PROSPECTING Gi BEFORE I HEAD NORTH! DON'T YOU RECOGNIZE MY FAMOUS SUNTLINE SPECIALS Tim WATT” Pf 7 G24 LE THAT SILVER IE ONA STRING.» \CROOGE MEDUCK! THE BUCKAROO OF THE BADLANDS! THE MAVERICK OF THE MONTANA CATTLE WARS! THE PIZEN OF PIZEN BLUFF! NOT TO MENTION THE TERROR OF THE TRANSVAAL, ‘THE ORNERIEST CGS IN THE OUTBACK, AND SEVERAL OTHER SCARY (BUT NOTQUITE ACCURATE) NAMES! YOu NEED OGETAROUND MORE, PAL! LET ME BUY YOU A DRINK, NR.MEDUCK! ‘SIR! PARONER! KEMO- ‘SABE! CHCAPEST GENERAL CTORE HEREABOUTS!OKAY, MISTER! TURN AND SLAP LEATHER! WHAT 2! You THINK IT'S 60 EASY 10 GET THE DROPON WYATT EARP 2! R! YOU CAN'T TRICK THE FAMOUS WYATT EARP. YOU CHEAP SONMY!| DO YOUR WORST! WILL YOU Pua-LeAse Yf IT's ME YOU WANT! THE WATT (GET OUTTA MAH WAY?! > EARP! BRAVE, Co! US. URAGEK SoINsULTED! T METO A NICE, AND BOLO--THEWHOLE BIT! MAND YOU DRAW! SI ‘SHOOT MEL I'VE NEVER BEEN 8 cAN YOU DIRECT Y 2M WYATT EARP! AND HE SHOTMEL INTHE BIG TOE! LOOK! SEE? NYAH-NYAHE YOu sHOTME! YOUDID IT WOTTA LIARL HE GRABBED MAK ARM AND SHOT HISSELF!PAY YOUR HALF OF THE DAMAGES OR TILL Lock YOU UP FOR A WEEK WITH YOUR PAL! SS eS Ge <9 Cy, $100 FOR A GRUBSTAKE? SURE, ACE! JUST SIGN HERE! You CAN SEE THERE'S NO FINE PRINT! *EINCERE SOAPY", THATS ME! HAR HAR! YOU STUPID CHEECHAKO! VI NOTE MY, THERE'S NO GOLD INTHESE PARTS! yy. “SINCERE” GLOATING! WELL, J HAVE A HUNCH TILL BE REPAYING YOU BEFORE YOU CAN GAY. I'M JUST DOWN FROMTHE KLONDIKE! THEY FOUND GOLD ON BONANZA CREEK! RICHEST STRIKE IN HISTORY!MY LOAN CONTRACTS DON'T HAVE FINE PRINT-- JUST A SPACE BETWEEN THE 10. AND THE % BIG ENOUGH FOR AN EXTRA YOU CANT DO. THATET'LL CALL THE LAW? yrs eK, rea GOAHEAD, RUNT! I'LL BE OVER THE BORDER WITH YOUR CONTRACT! 5 eS Zi y das n - ey HAVEN'T YOu HEARD? THEY IH STRUCK GOLD UP NORTH! RRR I DON'THAVE TIME TO DEAL WITH HIM! IN Y HEY, UPTHERE ¥ STAND AGIDE, \ FIVE MINUTES THIS $100 WON'T BE ENOUGH TO WHO. Zoucn!/€ Ihave § tuesy! You're |} BUY A USED HORSESHOE! ZYOWTCHIE $100! { STEPPINGONA LAT PEOPLE WITH MONEY CAN PAY TO HE KLONDIKE GOLD RLISH IG ON! THE FIRST (OF MAN’ Be FRULED UPON aL iy) OBSTACLES FOR THE STAMPEDERS IS THE MOUNTAINOUS CHILCOOT “THE ONLY ROUTE NORTH AND A NEAR VERTICAL CLIMB UP 1500 STERS CARVED INTOTHE ICE!SHADDUP AND KEEP MOVIN’, YA LITTLE SAWED- OFF PIPSQUEAK, OR T'LL SQUASH YA INTO THE SNOW LIKE A WORM! AT'S TELLIN’ HIM, SPIKES IX HOURS AND MANY MILES BACK DOWN THE INCE OVER THE CHILCOOT, THE KLONDIKERS ARRI TRAIL LATER, IN SKAGWAY-- AT THE HEADWATERS OF THE YUKON RIVER! THEY EXPECT 10 BUILD RAFTS, BUT FEW TREES GROW AT SUCH ALTITUDES! on, ASL SGO 4. Ss O73 Cee Eel TS THERE GOES SOAPY/ OF IRSE HE BOUGHT THE ONLY REMAINING DOG SLED! Hey, MEDUCK! THAT AIN'T MUCH WOOD FoR A RAFT-- EVEN FOR YOU! DON'T NEED A RAFT! I LEARNED TO SADDLEBREAK LIONSIN AFRICA, ANO PLAYA DIDGERIDOO LIKE THIS: IN AUSTRALIAL 60 LONG, SUCKER! SEE YOU IN DAWSON! THAT TOUGH LITTLE getawiters DAY--IFIOONTGET JY HIM FIRST!|ANY DOS TEAMS AND AT LEAST ONE ee TS A SMARTER ROUTE THANATIEMPT- MOOSE RIDER TAKE THE Tp LING TO NAVIGATE THROUGH THE WHITE IN THAT 3 WATER AND WHIRLPOOLS OF THE ‘a YUKON RIVER! INO AT TRAILIS ENO-- DAWSON CITY, THELEGENDARY BOOMTOWN THAT IS. LODE INTO THE UT AT THE DAWN OF THE GOLD RUSH, IT CONSISTS: ‘GOON TO EXP! OF LARGEST CITY IN NORTH OR WEST CANA‘ JUST TWO BUILDINGS! ABACKWOODS LumBeR ‘MILL AND... THATS RIGHT, miss O'GILT! THERE'LL YL] SOON BE ALOTOF WEALTH FLOWING INTO DAWSON! WHAT WITH ALL THOSE SOURDOUGHS AND THEIR GOLD DUST, a W750 You WANT 10 RENT A LY’ CORNER TABLE TO SETUPA [A Loan-cHARK OPERATION, en? ee a THAT'S THE TRUTH, FAT Boy! 4 BAH! T ATE JUST LAST WEEK! REGULAR MEALS ARE FOR SOFTIES! 1 WAHey, Pal ACROSS: NECA RCS MAYBE .,, BUT MAYBE NOBODY'S TOUGH ENOUGH OR SMART ENOLIGH TO FIND THE GOLD IN THE NORTHERN CREEKS! pt) THEY SAY THAT EVEN IF YOU WITHSTAND THE COLD AND DANGER OF THE CAVE, THE GLACIER MONSTER WILL GET YOUL NOBODY GOES THAT WAY! FORGET IT! Too SIDE ROUGH FOR SIGSIES, EH3 ONE THATS, ‘MY KINDA PLACE! FINALLY! A PLACE WHERE I'LL BE THE FIRGTONE WITH GUTS ENOUGH TO ‘STRIKE ITRICHELOT BIS in JILL BE SWOGGLED! IT'S ONE OF THOSE HAIRY ELEPHANTS! TU6ED 10 FINO THEIR BONES IN THE DAKOTA BADLANDS, BUT THIS ONE IS STILL WEARING HIS HIDEL LOOK AT THOSE SPEARS! HE MUST HAVE CRAWLED IN HERETO DIE WHEN SOME ICE-AGE HUNTERS NAILED HIM WAY BACK WHEN! AN ENTIRE UNEXPLORED VALLEY! AND kx IT'S ALL MINE! I'M THE EMPEROR OF WHITE AGONY VALLEY!9B THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN SAFE FROM HUNTERS HERE! GEE, IT'S CHOCK FULL OF ANIMALS! T Re SuPrOSi HM... THOSE CRITTERS ALL SEEM 70 LIVE OFF THE WATER AND FISH IN THE CREEK / MAYBE THEY'RE A SOURCE OF CLUES! BeigniE T LEARNED HOW 10 FIND GOLDIN THE ?ESERTG OF ARIZONA AND THE MOUNTAINS OF ‘THE RAND, BUT NEVER IN CREEKS! IF I CHECK VARMINTS IN THEIR TERRITORIES, IT MIGHT SAVE ME FROM SIFTING THROUGH WHITE AGONY CREEK INCH BY INCH! THE VALLEY BEYOND THIS POINT! IT MUST ENTER THE CREEK SOMEWHERE ALONG HERE! TILL DousLe’ CHECK... 4 YES! TINY GOLO FLAKES! ANIMALS IN THIS AREA ARETHE FARTHEST UPSTREAM 10 BE EXPOSED 70 THE STUFF! THAT MEANS THE ORIGINAL MOTHER LODE WAS SOMEWHERE IN THESE MOUNTAINS! THATS WHERE T'LL SEARCH NEXT!'N THE EVER- /7'Ve HAD YEARS OF ExPeRience VT SHORTENING / TRACING THE SITES OF HIGH: Bare That ALTITUDE GOLD VEINS! NOW IF I CAN ONLY GET A GooD VIEW OF THE DRAINAGE FLOW FROM UP HERE! I CAN'T QUITE SEE, WAIT! THE VIEW IS IMPROVING: THANKS! YOUCAN ROP ME OFF EONS AGO, THE WIND AND THE RAIN SLOWLY ERODED THE GOLD OFF THIS MOUNTAIN AND WASHED IT DOWN INTO THE VALLEY/ GUT I NEED TO FIND THE EXACT LOCATION! AHA! TRACES OF THE SORT OF CopPER, THAT OFTEN ACCOMPANIES GOLD VEINS! [\. THIS IS THE SPOT I'M LOOKING FOR! DIRECTLY BELOW IS WHERE THE GOLD DUST WAS ENTERING THE HERE! CREEK IN THE DAYS WHEN MY. : . FROZEN FRIEND INTHE ICE CAVE neue:Sgniffé Sthiere AH, YES! THE Lay THIS LAND | IDEAL! OF THAT ANCIENT LANDSLIDE TELLS WHERE THE CREEKBED WAS A HUNDRED CENTURIES AGO. WHEN THE GOLD VEIN WAS EXPOSED ABOVE! ANQON THE BEDROCK BELOW |S WHERE THE Nt WOULD HAVE SETTLED AS THEY WASHEC DOWN INTO THE VALLEY! 7 5 ws AND THAW THE FROZEN BOREALIG Dances [IMT i Guneouine nuabee IN THE DARK KLONCIKi : FIGHTING FOR Hie’ 1GHTE, ee FINAL CHANCE AT sucei ESS ON THIG LAST FRONTIER!DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME ON THAT BIRO! HE'S NOT LIKE THE ESTOP ‘THESE GREENHORNS! EVERY SELP-RESPECTING. NO-GOOD THUG IN TOWN HAS TRIED, BUT HES 700. FOR'EM! HE ALWAYS DOUBLES BACK ANOGETS THE DROP ON 'EM! Bre mesa | ALL RIGHT! ALL RIGHT! PICK MistaKE! TILL Ger )\Y Out THe BENT NAlLs AND YOU UM YET! CAN HAVE 'EM ATHALF PRICE! ION, THE "CASTLE OFTHE EMPEROR OF WHITE AGON) VALLEY ie une ‘CONSTRUCTI ‘THiS’ LL BE ONE OF THE FIRST ROOFS OVER My HEAD SINCE TLEFT HOME IN ‘SCOTLAND! WONDER HOW MA AND PA ANO THE GIRLS ARE ones IT'S BEEN MONTHS SINCE I COULD SEND ANY MONEY 10 PAY THE TAKES ON CASTLE ick. Swuhew!€ IM TREDL IMGLADI SAVED THIG LIGHT HAULING FOR LAST TODAY! iE STILLNESS OF THE LONG ARCTIC NIGHT CLOSES: NY CREATURES OPT FOR HIBERNATION, BUT NOTONE ON WHITE AGONY VALLEY, BUT THE FIERCE INFECTED WITH A GOLO FEVER HEATED BY AN AMBITION ACTIVITYON SCROOGE'S GRAVEL BAR NEVER SLACKENS, THAT BURNS WHITE HOT! “eee Boe‘THIS FRONTIER IS LIKE SO MANYOTHERS T'VE KNOWN-- UNSPOILED BY THE RAVAGES OF MAN, STILL ‘AND UNSULLIED! ~ AMMAN CAN FACE THE WORLOON HIS OWN TERMS HERE! ENJOY THE FRUITS OF HIG OWN LABOR! LIVE INA PARAPISE OF TRANQUILITY AND BEAUTY ANC. BAH! SUCKER TALK! WHEN I FINDGOLD, ¢ STILL DRAIN THE CREEK WITH HYDRAULICMINING, S| 4) BLAST THE MOUNTAINS APART, AND FEED THE TREES TO LUMBER MILLS! THE: OF ‘96797 PASSES SLOWLY EVERYBODY OUT! WINTER'S UNTIL, FINALLY, SPRINGS ‘OVER AND I DON'T NEED FOOTWARMERS. ‘ANYMORE! oe Sa IT TOOK ALL WINTER 70 DIG MY SHAFT AND BUILD MY SLUICE, BUT SOON THE CREEK WILL FLOW AGAIN AND I. CAN START WASHING GOLD OUT OF THESE DIGGINGS! LOOKS LIKE THE FIRE IN MY DRIFT SHAFT HAS DONE ITS JoB!NOW THAT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SHAFT. HAG THAWED, CAN DIG OUT A FEW MORE HOLE" WITHONLY A DAG OF SUCH GOLD YEP! WHITE AGONY CREEK JUST MIGHT BE THE END OF MY RAINBOW! VERAL DAYS LATER SCROOGE REACHES |& 1G ABOUT TO ENTER INTO THE WILDEST, RANSON, BUT IT IG ANEW DANGON, MOST LAWLESS AND JUST PLAIN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE CUSGEDEST SE TILEMENT IN NORTH AMER[500M | marie SOAPY 1S THRIING!| NOW HE OUNE GAMBLING DONE! Baneee FOR SUCKERS LOOKING TO BE PARTED FROM ween avoraaran: ON en aici “ei GOLo oust fy Marois ees) | ma mn | ores i MY LIER! ae bE NM [SLICKS ceusNcom © Ger FusgteD | [5 WILE VOU $0 YOU FINALLY FILED A CLAIM, EH? ‘YES, BUT NOT IN THE WAY YOU <( SMART MOVE! T’M TOLD THERE ARE CAN, CR THINK, YOU COCKY RUNT! LOTS OF CLAIMTUMPERS IN THESE PARTS! TERMINATE!THERE GOES THAT SKINFLINT, SCROOGE MEDUCK! HE NEVER SPENDS ACENT ON SOMEDAY, WHEN T HIT IT B43, I WILL Go II SHAT JOINT AND SHOW THEM ATHING O@ TWO! OBO! MAIL FROM HOME! I'LL READ IT i AS SOON AS I CAN SNEAK OUTOF TOWN fi nose UNSEEN! OFFICE O i mM ly Ss = H Lo IE . ry ‘A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEPINA W sonny, rouKs! Just SOPT BED! THEN IT'S BACK wuatsa \ PASSING THROUGH! "TO MY CLAIM IN THE MORNING! | I # S\ GO BACK To SLEEPY Pt TRICKING CLAIMTUMPERS IS A BREEZE! ¥E “{ ANYONE TOO LAZY TO WORK FoR HIS. MONEY 15 NO MATCH FOR SCROOGEFEAST YOUR EYES ON SCROOGE M¢DUCK, BOYS! NOW HE CAN'T TEAR HAR HE WAS 700 GOOD 70 EVER HANG AROUND: HIMSELF AWAY?” “HAR ‘ONE OF MY CASINOS! HARL LI 4 JA a0 YOU SEE, MEDUCK, I DON'TNEED TO JUMP YOUR CLAIM--NOT I I HAVE THE PAPERS ALL SIGNED AND SEALED AND LEGAL) - HAH! THE SO-CALLED *BUCKAROO OF THE BADLANDS"] THE " PIZEN OF PIZEN BLUFF"! JUST CHEAP PULP FICTION! TALL TALES! BLUFFL WHERE'S THE CUTE LITTLE SKIRT ALL YOU SCOTTISH SISSIES WEARE SPEAKING OF WHICH, LOOK WE HAVE HERE, BOYS! LISTEN TOTHI6--A MISSIVE FROM WHAT “ LETTERS FROM HOME! ‘DEAR YOU'VE WRITTEN! We KN“ PAPA AND YOUR SISTERS HAVE BEEN TRYING TOFD | [ “BUT WE KNOW YOU'LL FIND THE POTOF GOLD YOUSEEK WORK 70 PAY THE TAXES ON THE CASTLE BUT WE'VE | by ANDALL OUR TROUBLES WILL BE OVER! LOVE, FALLEN BEHIND! TWIGH TCOULDHELA guTIve | | MOTHER"! a FELTSO TIRED LATELY... Z| ] ‘TSK TSK! YOU BOYS REALLY SHOULON'T BESO MEAN 70 APOOR LITTLE MOTHERLESS LAD! wien { CR m ets | BER, 1D ANOTHER, 4 ITE SOAPY! * FROM DADDY! FROM | WELL, I KNOW SCROOGE WOULD RATHER BE HARD AT WORK’ THAN HANGING AROUND TA/6 DEN OF INIQUITY! SOGETAN ANCHOR, == 8SCROOGEY" WANTS TO SEARCH THE RIVERBOTTOM FOR PAYDIRT! HAR HARE 2WS SEIS ee \CCOUNTS VARY WIDELYASTO [Ky EXACTLY WHAT | TRANSPIRED THAT Fe ACTA GiTiguELTuaT’c How THEY ExPLAWED IT Tas AIT MORE DIFFICULT 70 EXPLAIN WHAT LATER! THOSE SMOKESTACKS MUST HAVE HAD CAUSED THE CONCERT GRAND PIANO TO GO WEAK SPOTS IN THEIR BASES! BOTH OF THEM! SAILING THROUGH THE IMPORTED STAINED-GLASS IE SAID SLICK'S RIVERBOAT WAS DEMOLISHED FREAK TIDALWAVE FROM THE BERING SEA-- UT IT WASN'T TOO HARD TO ACCOUNT FoR THE FIRE THAT BROKE OUT! WHAT ELSE WOULD ONE EXPECT WHEN ACAGT- IRON STOVE CRASHES. THREE BULKHEADS? BYA ‘TWELVE HUNDRED MILES POWNRIVER J ( Via'HE WHOLE INCIDENT WAS PROBABLY EXAGGERA- TED IN THE MANY RETELLINGS THAT FOLLOWED. POSSIBLY, ITDIN'T ACTUALLY HAPPEN AT ALL! Ba. THIS WAS THE ERA OF THE BIRTHOF LEGENDS, AND THE NON-STOP LIFE OF DAWSON PAUSED THAT DAY 70 WATCH A NEW CHARACTER ENTER THE STORY- BOOKS ALONGSIDE PAUL BUNYAN AND PECOS BILL.» i GCROOGE MEDUCK, THE KING OF THE KLONDIKE! USE PLEASE, MISTER... THERE'S ONLY TWENTY Bh OF US! CAN'T YOU WATT UNTIL OUR REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE? RELAX! IM MAKING A DELIVERY! I THINK THESE FILES WILL SHOW THAT SOAPY SLICK IS. BEHIND A LOTOF CLAIMILUMPING IN YOUR RITORY! |) We'VE FINALLY GOT THE GOODSON You, % SLICK 1 WE'RE DEPORTING YOU TO ALASKA ON “THE NEXT BOAT TO GOLDBOOM! DON'TCOME BACK YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS, MEDUCK! T STILL HAVE loa rf I'LL BE WAITING FOR ‘MY MONEY IN GOLDBOOM!THere! anoTHER Nl] [ poGGoNE IT! EVER SINCE T FILED MY CLAIM, MORE BUCKETOF DIRT READY )) | AND MORE NOSY- BODIES ARE BRAVING THE TRIP IN FOR THE SLUICE! S “THROUGH THE ICE CAVE! Aik = Sa SS: If YOU SEE Him PULLOUT QIAN PX Ms Sancemttaarorano, SAI SP DUCKL a K AND IF ANYOF YOU NO-GOOD VARMINTS Come AROUND AGAIN, I'LL OUSTOFF YOUR NOGGINS WITH A BIG ROCKL EP GREAT HONK, THIS ROCK IS Bo | ...uNLess IT's GOLD/ GoTTA RINSE OFF THE MUDZ —( HEAVy! How couLD rweicH NUGGET THIS B/G WOULD MAKE ME THE RICHEST SO MUCH UNLESS,,, ‘MAN IN THE KLONDIKE!