This life-saving invention made Yukon Jack legend. Prospector and author Jack London considered it an honor to call him a friend. Years later, London wrote characters based on Jack and his wife Kate– an Athabascan Native– in his Yukon stories, The Wife of a King. Another honor of sorts came in the 1970s when American alcohol producer Heublein Spirits named whiskey “Yukon Jack” and put a picture of McQuesten on the bottle. Jack and Kate did okay, too. they operated trading posts up and down the Yukon River for 20 years, amassing a $2 million Fortune before retiring in 1894 to a Victorian Mansion in Berkeley, California.
Damming Evidence
North American beavers are smaller than only the South American capybara, which
