White 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 Law of the Trail…ific Ocean, and between them lay thirty miles of terrain more unforgiving than any other migration route in North America had to offer. The White Pass offered an alternative, and in the summer of 1897 it was beginning to attract attention. The White Pass route began at Skagway, a settlemen…
- The Ton of Goods…hilkoot Trail spanned between 28 and 33 miles from sea level at Dyea to Lake Bennett, British Columbia, at an elevation of 2, 602 feet. The White Pass, beginning at Skagway, covered similar terrain by a different route. Both were mountain trails, usable only on foot, in summer through mud…
- The Siege of the Scales…o pass through this notch. There was no other route that did not involve a journey of hundreds of additional miles or the navigation of the White Pass, which ran parallel to the south but was, in the autumn of 1897, barely a trail. The Chilkoot was the artery. The police intended to contro…