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Chilkoot Pass (el. 3,759 feet or 1,146 metres) is a high mountain pass through the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the U.S. state of Alaska and British Columbia, Canada. It is the highest point along the Chilkoot Trail that leads from Dyea, Alaska to Bennett Lake , British Columbia.
The Chilkat Pass is a mountain pass on the border of Alaska, United States, and the province of British Columbia, Canada, at the divide between the Klehini (S) and Kelsall Rivers just northwest of Haines, Alaska.
The Chilkoot Trail is a 33-mile (53 km) trail through the Coast Mountains that leads from Dyea, Alaska, in the United States, to Bennett, British Columbia, in Canada.It was a major access route from the coast to Yukon goldfields in the late 1890s.
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The Chilkoot Trail tramways also began to operate in the Chilkoot Pass above Dyea. In 1896, before the Klondike gold rush had begun, a group of investors saw an opportunity for a railroad over that route. It was not until May 1898 that the White Pass and Yukon Route began laying narrow gauge railroad tracks in Skagway. The railroad depot was ...
Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million, and 92 years later, it became the 49th state.
Chilkoot Inlet, terminus of the Chilkoot River, in Alaska; Chilkoot Lake, in Haines Township, Alaska; source of the Chilkoot River; Chilkoot Pass, on the Chilkoot Trail, crossing from Alaska, USA to BC, Canada, over the Coast Mountains; Chilkoot Reservation, a U.S. Indian Reservation in Alaska, see List of Indian reservations in the United States
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