Dawson City
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 Winter of the Secret…t boats launched from the Klondike carried men and gold and letters down the Yukon toward the coast. The voyage was long. The distance from Dawson City to St. Michael, at the mouth of the Yukon, was roughly sixteen hundred miles by river. The boats traveled with the current, but the current…
- The Law of the Trail…force’s first patrols into the Yukon interior in the early 1890s, when small detachments had established posts at Forty Mile and, later, at Dawson City, near the mouth of the Klondike River. The police were a small presence, a handful of officers and constables scattered across a territory…
- The Portland’s Manifest…ozen ground of the Klondike over the preceding winter. Fires had thawed the gravel. Spring breakup had provided the water for washing. From Dawson City to St. Michael, the river journey took weeks. From St. Michael to Seattle, the sea voyage took days. From the gravel to the wharf, the whol…