The editors have extracted comments from his journals on this area and have appended a separate report of Dawson's on the ethnology of the Native people living in the region. Includes 25 photos by Dawson.

But Dawson never wrote his memoirs. So, a century after his death, Phil Jenkins has lent him a hand. Using Dawson's own words, and filling in the gaps in Dawson's voice, Jenkins presents the man who left his heart in western Canada.

1898 reprint of two earlier geological reports. Dawson's report on the Yukon Expedition of 1887-88 has been reprinted in full. Only those sections of McConnell's report relating the Porcupine and Yukon Rivers have been reprinted.