GLOSSARY

1. Yukon residents have longed used the term Outside to refer to the world to the south.
2. Noncommissioned officers, or NCOs, are corporals and sergeants, that is enlisted personnel above the rank of constable but below commissioned officers.
3. Stampeders are prospectors who flooded north for the great Klondike Gold Rush in 1897 and 1898.
4. Efforts to preserve elements of endangered or vanished civilizations are often referred to as salvage anthropology.