A bunch of the boys were a whooping it up in the malamute saloon. The kid that handled the music box was playing a jagtime tune, Back of the bar in a solo game sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,
Life was simpler when Pearl Keenan was growing up on her father's mink ranch near Teslin. In the days before the Alaska Highway, everything moved by dog team and snowshoes. Pearl got much of her early education on the land.
She was an American woman who gave up the life of high society, comfort and privilege to live the tough life of a miner in the wilds of the Yukon and northern British Columbia.