Chapter 4: The Return to Wisconsin

     What had started as a wonderful adventure and a chance for Jesse and Mae to strike it rich in the Klondike has ended. The survivors will return to Madison. The final letters, telegram, poetry and newspaper articles help us piece together the ending to this sad story.


Photo of Captain Jack Crawford and Mae Eldorado Edgren.


Letter from Jesse in Dawson to home. April 14, 1899. 8 pages
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Telegram delivered to Madison Wisconsin, Aug. 19, 1921


Nephew's poem The 1898 Gold Rush. [no date] 2 pages

     See if you can figure out to whom the telegram is addressed based on information in past letters from Mae to Dottie. Who wrote the poem?


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