Skagway, Alaska: Gold Rush History and Gateway to the Klondike
In the summer of 1897, word reached the outside world that gold had been discovered in the Klondike region of Canada’s Yukon Territory. Within months, over 100,000 prospectors converged on a small tidal flat at the head of the Lynn Canal in Southeast Alaska. They called the place Skagway. Today Skagway has a year-round population […]