Stern-wheel steamship M.K. MERWIN on the Yukon River, circa 1898

• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division
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• Subjects: Stern wheelers > Yukon; Rivers > Yukon; W.K. Merwin (Stern-wheeler); Paddle steamers > Yukon; Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska); Yukon; Canada; Pacific; Newell; Shelton; Yukon river; Alaska
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Filed in Yukon territory The W.K. MERWIN was a 108-foot stern-wheeler of 230 tons. She was built at Seattle in 1883, laid up in 1894, and came out again in 1896 to try several sound and river routes, including the Olympia-Shelton and Skagit River runs, before going north. On January 19, 1897, in ope...