Helps Readers Understand Setting:
- Klondike
- fall rush of 1897
- Chilcoot Pass
- freeze-up
- snow began to fly
- sled
- one hundred and ten dollars
- sled animal
- mixed yellow-brown-red-and-dirty-white
Doesn’t Help Readers Understand Setting:
- one of the finest-appearing dogs I ever saw
- he weighed sixty pounds
- we never could make out his breed
- it all he had some of the white man’s dog in him
- a spot of coal-black as big as a water bucket
- That was why we called him Spot.