It was a larger table, and there was no reason why he with his millions should not sit in and take a hand.

So it was, that afternoon on Skookum Hill, that he resolved to play this last best Klondike hand and pull for the Outside.
It took time, however.

He put trusted agents to work on the heels of great experts, and on the creeks where they began to buy he likewise bought.

Wherever they tried to corner a worked-out creek, they found him standing in the way, owning blocks of claims or artfully scattered claims that put all their plans to naught.
"I play you-all wide open to win--am I right" he told them once, in a heated conference.
Followed wars, truces, compromises, victories, and defeats.

By 1898, sixty thousand men were on the Klondike and all their fortunes and affairs rocked back and forth and were affected by the battles Daylight fought.