Encampment at the foot of Chilkoot Pass showing Klondikers ascending to the summit, Chilkoot Pass Trail, Alaska, 1898

PH Coll 334.Sankowski 1 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. The trail became obsolete i...

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Main Author: Sankowski, H.
Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Camps > Alaska
Miners > Alaska
Passes (Landforms) > Alaska
Chilkoot Pass
Mountain passes > Alaska
Yukon
Canada
British Columbia
White Pass
Goldfields
Pass Mountain
Skagway
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/7733
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Summary:PH Coll 334.Sankowski 1 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. The trail became obsolete in 1899 when a railway was built from Dyeas neighbor port Skagway along the parallel White Pass trail.

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