Skagway
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)…e Chilkoot and White passes, both of which had been used for centuries by the Tlingit people of the coastal villages near what would become Skagway and Dyea, who held them as trade corridors and guarded them against outsiders. Beyond the mountains, the interior opened into a vast waters…
- The Law of the Trail…ffer. 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 settlement at the head of Lynn Canal approximately ten miles northwest of Dyea by water. Skagway in the summer of 1897 was barely a sett…
- The Portland’s Manifest…steamship offices on Yesler Way and Front Street. The lines formed before the ink on the newspaper was dry. The tickets were for passage to Skagway and Dyea, the two ports at the head of Lynn Canal, the two points where the trails began—the Chilkoot and the White. The men who bought the…