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Doing The White Pass By Howard Clifford WP & Yukon Route Klondike Gold Rush
Doing The White Pass
THE story of the White Pass & Yukon Route and the Klondike Gold Rush
By Howard Clifford
Softbound
88 pages
Copyright 1983
Contents
Chapter I
Discovery In The Yukon 1
Chapter II
A Ton of Gold 11
Chapter III
Brackett's Wagon Road20
Chapter IV
A Railroad Is Born 26
Chapter V
The Duel On The Dock 32
Chapter VI
Construction Of The Railroad 36
Chapter VII
Problems Continue 44
Chapter VIII
Good Years and Bad 53
Chapter IX
Whitehorse is "Discovered" 60
Chapter X
The War Years 64
Chapter XI
Post War Years 68
Passenger Coaches on the WP&YR78
White Pass & Yukon Locomotive Roster 82
About the author
Howard Clifford, award-winning writer and photographer, has traveled extensively in Alaska and the Yukon for more than a quarter of a century, writing thousands of words and taking hundreds of photographs of his favorite travel area.
He is a former newspaperman and at one time or another has been a commercial airplane pilot, sports announcer, ski instructor, race car driver, advertising and public relations official and consultant, theatre manager, airline official, film producer, editor and publisher, U.S. Marine, law officer and travel writer-to name a few of his vocations and occupations.
Chapter I
Discovery In The Yukon
Dreams of a 65-year old sea captain, who had gone through close to a dozen gold rushes and who had made and lost several fortunes, foretold the construction of the White Pass & Yukon Route a decade before the discovery of gold in the Yukon.
During the summer of 1887 Captain William (Billy) Moore was hired by a Canadian survey party, headed by William Ogilvie, to find a new route from sea level to the Upper Yukon-a route that could be reached from the placid waters of Tiaya Inlet on Lynn Canal.
At that time entry into the Upper Yukon Valley was via the Chilkoot Pass, a precipitous and rugged route that taxed the strength of the best of men. Captain Moore had traveled the area over a period of years and had heard rumors of such a route, more than 600 feet less in altitude than the Chilkoot.
He was determined to test the feasibility of a new route and so while the main Ogilvie party took the old trail through Dyea, an Indian village centered around the Healy and Wilson Trading Post and supplier to most of those going over the pass, Capt. Moore started up the Skagway (Skaguay) River, accompanied by his Indian friend, Skookum Jim Mason, who was to play an even more important role in the Klondike gold rush a decade later.
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