Even the Government was waking up, after proving there was something besides graft in railroad building north of Mount St.Elias.Senators and Congressmen at Washington had listened to him seriously, and especially to Carl Lomen.

And the beef barons, wisest of all, had tried to buy him off and had offered a fortune for Lomen's forty thousand head of reindeer in the Seward Peninsula! That was proof of the awakening.

Absolute proof.
He lighted a fresh cigar, and his mind shot through the dissolving mist into the vast land ahead of him.

Some Alaskans had cursed Theodore Roosevelt for putting what they called "the conservation shackles" on their country.

But he, for one, did not.