Chilkoot Pass
Books
- A Ton of Goods Ledgers, Law, and the Klondike Gold Rush · Liszt Think
In July 1897, the steamers Excelsior and Portland docked with a ton of gold, igniting a stampede that would test the limits of human endurance and bureaucratic order.
- The Land of the Midnight Sun (pre-1896)…olice first came to the Yukon in 1894, when Inspector Charles Constantine and Staff Sergeant Charles Brown traveled down the river from the Chilkoot Pass to assess the situation in the mining camps. He found a population of perhaps two hundred white men scattered along the creeks and rivers,…
- The Law of the Trail…century, controlling access to the interior Yukon through a network of trails that followed the Taiya River up from tidewater, climbed the Chilkoot Pass to the headwaters of the Yukon watershed, and descended to the chain of lakes, Crater, Long, Deep, Lindeman, Bennett, that fed the river sy…
- The Portland’s Manifest…aper recorded the figure. It did not record the distance, the altitude, the wind, the weight of a pack on a man’s back at the summit of the Chilkoot Pass. The evidence was true and the evidence was incomplete, and the incompleteness was the engine of the stampede, because the evidence showed…