Today’s booklet is the same size as yesterday’s, but has a different title and a different cover photo. Inside, however, the two booklets are nearly identical. The text is almost identical and four of the eight photos and the back cover map are also included in today’s booklet.

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I can find two differences in the text. First, yesterday’s booklet referred to Yukon River steamboats passing the Wood River, “sixty-two miles above Rampart.” Today’s booklet calls that river the Ray River, which is the name it is called today. (There is a Wood River in Alaska, but it is hundreds of miles away from the Yukon.) Based on this, I suspect today’s booklet was issued more recently than yesterday’s.

The other difference is a printing error. Whoever designed this booklet decided that the print should be a little larger than in yesterday’s. Each page of text fit about one-half of a line fewer. That might have been fine, except when the text reaches page 18, it ends in the middle of a sentence. Pages 19 and 20 were still dedicated to a photo and map so the last five lines in yesterday’s booklet were simply left out. I wonder how long it took for anyone at the company to notice this.

It could be that yesterday’s booklet was issued to correct this misprint. But that doesn’t explain why yesterday’s booklet used the wrong name for the Ray River while today’s got it right. Either way, we can’t pin the dates of these booklets down any narrower than between 1927 and 1941. However, I’m guessing yesterday’s was 1939 or 1940 and today’s was 1940 or 1941, the last year of White Pass service on the stretch of the Yukon River described in these booklets.