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Gold Rush Gateway Skagway and Dyea Alaska By Stan Cohen Soft Cover
Gold Rush Gateway Skagway and Dyea , Alaska By Stan Cohen Soft Cover
Gold Rush Gateway; Skagway and Dyea, Alaska
Stan Cohen
Soft Cover
136 Pages
Copyright 1986
Third Printing April 1992
Contents
Introduction vi
The Photographers 1
The Beginning 5
Dyea 17
The Passes 25
Street Scenes / Aerial Views 33
Skagway Docks 47
White Pass & Yukon Route 57
Businesses, Buildings, Etc 71
Skagway's Colorful Characters 85
Life in Skagway 97
The Military Presence 101
A Potpourri of Views 115
Modern Day Skagway 121
Bibliography 132
Partial Introduction
Situated at the head of the Lynn Canal are two sites of much importance to the history of the Klondike Gold Rush, one of the greatest adventures North America has ever known. At the mouth of the Taiya River is the abandoned site of ,Dyea, once the major gateway to the Chilkoot trail and the water route to the interior of the Yukon. Four miles to the southeast of Dyea, at the mouth of the Skagway River, lies the other major gateway to the goldfields by way of the White Pass TrailSkagway.
The early history of these two towns is interrelated, but today they are vastly different. Dyea has gone the way of many of the gold rush towns of the late 1800s and early 1900sit has crumbled to the dust from which it sprang in 1897. Skagway has fared better, and along with Dawson City and a few other remains, it represents the last surviving vestiges of the gold rush. But Skagway, too, has had its ups and downs.
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