Scrooge's feet wrapped in cloth strips

[Larry Giver]

     I read Don Rosa's "Prisoner of White Agony Creek" in the new Gemstone 
Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion, and I was surprised to see that 
Scrooge's feet were bare.  Rosa's previous stories of Scrooge's Klondike 
gold rush days showed him wearing improvised shoes of cloth strips most of 
the time.  In the flashback portion of "Last Sled to Dawson" even Casey 
Coot wears them.  Scrooge wears them in Chapter 8 "King of the Klondike" 
and 8C "Hearts of the Yukon".  Now in his new story 8B, Scrooge wears them 
on the cover, but has bare feet throughout the story.  Why is that?
     The new story "Prisoner of White Agony Creek" incorporates several 
panels from Barks' originally censored flashback portion of "Back to the 
Klondike", and Scrooge was barefoot in all the flashback portion of Barks' 
Klondike story, despite the snow.  So Rosa had to leave Scrooge barefoot in 
order to be faithful to the original Barks' story he was elaborating.  So 
what is the origin of Scrooge's foot wrappings?  It's not anywhere in 
Barks' "Back to the Klondike".  Indeed, it's in Barks' first long Scrooge 
story, "Only a Poor Old Man", page 7 panel 8.  As far as I know, that one 
flashback panel is the only time Barks showed Scrooge wearing 
foot-wrappings in a comic story.
			---Larry Giver.