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  2. Chilkoot Trail tramways - Wikipedia

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    Chilkoot Trail tramway in forest, 1898 The Chilkoot Railroad and Transport Company (CR&T) was the largest, most comprehensive, and last of the Chilkoot Trail tramways to be constructed. At first, planners toyed with a horse-drawn tramroad and even a railroad going straight up the Taiya River valley, but financial restraints tempered these plans.

  3. Chilkoot Pass - Wikipedia

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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 Chilkoot Trail was long a route used by the ...

  4. Chilkoot Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Canadian half of the Chilkoot Trail, in the rain shadow of the Coast Mountains, is much dryer, and pine forest, first appearing at Deep Lake, readily contrasts to the more lush temperate rain forest on the U.S. half before Chilkoot Pass. After the trail passes Deep Lake, the outlet river runs parallel to the trail for a short distance ...

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in Skagway, Alaska

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    Union of Chilkoot Trail and Dyea Site and Skagway Historic District and White Pass 59°34′31″N 135°15′49″W  /  59.57537°N 135.26367°W  / 59.57537; -135.26367  ( Klondike Goldrush National Historical

  6. Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park - Wikipedia

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    White Pass is a mountain pass that leads from Skagway to the headwaters of the Yukon River in British Columbia. The trail was one of the two main routes used by prospectors to get from Skagway over the Boundary Range on their way to the gold fields in the Yukon. The White Pass and Yukon Route railway, completed in 1900, used White Pass to bring ...

  7. 20 vintage photos of Alaska from before it became a state - AOL

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    Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million, and 92 years later, it became the 49th state.

  8. List of avalanches by death toll - Wikipedia

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    1938 Unazuki avalanche [8] Japan: 1938: 19 81: Pragelato: Italy: 1904: 20 79 (57 confirmed 22 presumed dead) 1954 Blons avalanches: Austria: 1954: 21 70: Frassino avalanche: Italy: 1885: 22 65: Palm Sunday Avalanche; deadliest avalanche along Chilkoot Trail : United States: 1898: 23 62: 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche; deadliest avalanche in Canada ...

  9. Klondike Gold Rush - Wikipedia

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    The Klondike Gold Rush [n 1] was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon in northwestern Canada, between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896; when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors.