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Skagway, City of the New Century

Author : William Jeffery Brady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780945284109
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Skagway, City of the New Century written by William Jeffery Brady and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shgagw�i, as it was first called centuries ago by the Tlingit for the "bunched up water" in its bay caused by strong winds, was discovered in 1887 by a father and son with visions of a gateway port to the riches of the Yukon and Alaska. Ten years later, after the discovery of gold in the Klondike, their vision came true with the arrival of prospectors from all over the world. Skaguay and nearby Dyea were rival towns, booming from the rush for gold. Each had multiple newspapers which chronicled the stampede and the competition between the White and Chilkoot passes, but Skagway won the war with the construction of the White Pass & Yukon Route railway and settled on a way to spell its name. The community has survived smaller booms and busts since, but remains a vital tourism and industrial port as the Gateway to the Klondike. In 1898 editors called Skagway the "City of the New Century". In this book of stories and photographs, the rich history of this area and its people is chronicled through that new century, and into the next.

Skagway

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Skagway written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Milepost

Author : Kris Valencia
Publisher : Morris Communications Company
ISBN 13 : 9781892154217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book The Milepost written by Kris Valencia and published by Morris Communications Company. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Referred to by travellers as "the bible of North Country travel" since it was first published in 1949, The Milepost is an essential travel companion for anyone planning or taking a trip to Alaska, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, northern Alberta or northern British Columbia.Travellers will find detailed mile-by-mile road logs and maps of all northern routes, including the famous Alaska Highway. The Milepost is updated annually by experienced field editors, providing accurate and up-to-date information on attractions, activities, food, gas, lodging and camping. Details are provided for every city and town along the way.Travel by air, ferry, cruise ship, bus and rail is also covered. Every edition of The Milepost includes Alaska State Ferry and B.C. Ferries schedules, important information on crossing the border, a calendar of events, a pull-out Plan-a-Trip map, litre-to-gallon conversions and dozens of other travel tips.Special features highlight side-trip destinations, gold rush and highway history, and places to eat and things to do.With its wealth of detail, The Milepost is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in the North, whether it is the trans-Alaska pipeline, bird watching, Native culture, or glaciers and wildlife viewing, to name just a few attractions. This classic travel guide is a must for every Northland traveller.

Skagway, District of Alaska, 1884-1912

Author : Robert L. S. Spude
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Skagway, District of Alaska, 1884-1912 written by Robert L. S. Spude and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical and preservation data on the Skagway Historic District compiled for the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park and the people of Skagway.

Archeological Investigations in Skagway, Alaska: The Mascot Sallon

Author : Catherine Holder Spude
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Archeological Investigations in Skagway, Alaska: The Mascot Sallon written by Catherine Holder Spude and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Archeological Investigations in Skagway, Alaska: Excavations at the Pantheon Saloon Complex

Author : Catherine Holder Spude
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Archeological Investigations in Skagway, Alaska: Excavations at the Pantheon Saloon Complex written by Catherine Holder Spude and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Archeological Investigations in Skagway, Alaska: The Mill Creek Dump and the Peniel Mission, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

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Author : Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Archeological Investigations in Skagway, Alaska: The Mill Creek Dump and the Peniel Mission, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park written by Catherine Holder Spude and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Timber Supply and Use in the Haines-Skagway Area, Alaska

Author : Vernon J. LaBau
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Timber Supply and Use in the Haines-Skagway Area, Alaska written by Vernon J. LaBau and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Klondike International Hwy Extension, Reconstruction, Skagway to the Canadian Border

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Klondike International Hwy Extension, Reconstruction, Skagway to the Canadian Border written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Archeological Investigations in Skagway, Alaska: The Moore Cabin and House, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

Author : Catherine Holder Spude
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Archeological Investigations in Skagway, Alaska: The Moore Cabin and House, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park written by Catherine Holder Spude and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geologic Reconnaissance of the West Creek Damsite Near Skagway, Alaska

Author : James E. Callahan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geologic Reconnaissance of the West Creek Damsite Near Skagway, Alaska written by James E. Callahan and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exploring Southeast Alaska

Author : Don Douglass
Publisher : Fine Edge Productions
ISBN 13 : 9781932310245
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Southeast Alaska written by Don Douglass and published by Fine Edge Productions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely all-new revision of the best-selling classic, Exploring the Inside Passage to Alaska, increases focus on Southeast Alaska, offering hundreds of new anchor sites, expanded descriptions and additional waypoints to guide small craft sailors through one of the world's best cruising grounds. Almost completely protected, these waters give access to pristine wilderness of breathtaking beauty-thousands of islands, deeply-cut fjords, tidewater glaciers and icebergs. The Douglasses, who cruise to and from Alaska every year, supply skippers with all the up-to-date local knowledge they need. An expanded edition of the acclaimed standard for Alaska-bound vessels.

Gold Rush Gateway, Skagway and Dyea, Alaska

Author : Stan Cohen
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ISBN 13 : 9780933126480
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush Gateway, Skagway and Dyea, Alaska written by Stan Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated at the head of Lynn Canal are two sites of much importance to the history of the Kondike Gold Rush, one of the greatest adventures North America has known. At the mounth of the Taiya River is the abandoned site of Dyea, once the gateway to the Chilkoot Trail and the water route to the interior of the Yukon. Four miles to the southeast of Dyea, at the mouth of the Skagway River, lies the other major gateway to the goldfields by way of the White Pass Trail�Skagway. The early history of these two towns in interrelated but today they are vastly different. Dyea has gone the way of the gold rush towns of the late 2800s and early 1900s�it has crumbled to the dust from which it sprang in 1897. Skagway has fared better, and along with Dawson City and a few other remains, it represents the last vestiges of the gold rush.

After the Gold Rush

Author : Robert Dahl
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ISBN 13 : 9781413484113
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book After the Gold Rush written by Robert Dahl and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Gold Rush begins in January 1926, when the ship carrying Robert Dahl steams into the harbor in Skagway, Alaska. The ten-year-old boy has been traveling for over a week with his mother and two brothers from the tiny town in northwest Iowa where he was born. As the ship's crew prepares to dock, the brothers eagerly scan the wharf for a glimpse of their father, who arrived a few weeks earlier to become the town's only physician. Driven by hopes of finding Yukon gold, thousands had once passed through Skagway. By the time of the Dahl family's arrival in 1926, the population had shrunk to five hundred. Although some buildings remaining from the Gold Rush days made sections of Skagway look like a ghost town, the young boy from the plains of Iowa was entranced by the wild beauty of the surrounding mountains, which he would explore in the years to come. In this highly personal tale of Robert Dahl´s years in Skagway, we meet the people of the town at school, at work, at play, hunting and fishing. We meet town "characters," a few remaining from the Gold Rush days, others whose drifting had ended in Skagway. We meet Tlingit Indians, who were made "outcasts in their own land" by the visible and invisible barriers of small-town life. The author concludes with the hope that "this lovely piece of our world will be preserved as long as human beings, and our fellow creatures who inhabit those splendid mountains, valleys, forests, rivers, streams, and, yes, even the glaciers, continue to live on this earth."

The White Pass

Author : Roy Minter
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ISBN 13 : 9780912006338
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The White Pass written by Roy Minter and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the thousands they came, the gold-seekers of 1897, pouring through Alaska's White and Chilkoot passes on their way to the Klondike and to fortune. Fast behind them came the entrepreneurs, the bunco artists, and before long, the engineers and financiers whose driving ambition was to build a railway through the White Pass's rocky precipices. This is the epic northern adventure of the men who rushed for gold, the workers who toiled in winter storms and thaw-time muck, carving the grade and laying rail, and the ingenious characters who dreamed, schemed, promoted, and finally built the White Pass and Yukon Railway.

"That Fiend in Hell"

Author : Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806188200
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book "That Fiend in Hell" written by Catherine Holder Spude and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the “uncrowned king of Skagway,” remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in ’98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game. With Smith’s death, Skagway rid itself of crime forever. Or at least, so the story goes. Journalists immediately cast him as a martyr whose death redeemed a violent town. In fact, he was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Spude concludes that the actual Soapy was not the legendary “boss of Skagway,” nor was he killed by Frank Reid, as early historians supposed. She shows that even eyewitnesses who knew the truth later changed their stories to fit the myth. But why? Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway’s boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith’s death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway’s economic interests. Spude’s engaging deconstruction of Soapy’s story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier.

Skagway

Author : L. J. Campbell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Skagway written by L. J. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Skagway, from before it was Mooresville through its gold rush heyday, from its reign as Alaska's "Garden City" through its mini-boom during World War II and on into the present