Rosa would eventually create The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, a twelve-part serial chronicling several episodes in this journey, beginning with Scrooge's childhood in Scotland, and including the episode "The King of the Klondike", and the later companion stories "The Prisoner of White Agony Creek" and "The Hearts of the Yukon", also taking place in Yukon.
Struck by the beauty of the landscape, he recites the final stanza of Robert W. Service's "The Spell of the Yukon", but realizes that he has lost his trail and wandered onto Mooseneck Glacier.
Pursued by a pack of timber wolves, he falls off a cliff and crashes through the roof of Soapy Slick's gambling barge, on its return trip to Whitehorse.
He snaps back to the present with the arrival of Donald and his nephews, who open the telegram and learn that the ice covering Mooseneck Glacier has finally thawed enough to expose the marker of his sled.
In joy, Scrooge unpacks the sled, revealing his old prospector's kit: a coonskin cap and deerskin coat ("no silk topper and golden-fleece mackintosh could ever be as noble an outfit!
"), his coffee pot and skillet ("no fancy meal has tasted half as fine as the beans I cooked on my own campfire under the Klondike stars!")
"The Last Sled" is the title of a song on Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge, composed by Tuomas Holopainen, in which Scrooge (voiced by Alan Reid) recites the same passage from "The Spell of the Yukon" that appears in the comic: There's gold, and it's haunting and haunting;It's luring me on as of old;Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting so much as just finding the gold.It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,It's the forests where silence has lease;It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder,It's the stillness that fills me with peace.