Street in Skagway during the gold rush, ca. 1898

• Main Author: Curtis, Asahel, 1874-1941
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Bars; Clancy's Saloon (Skagway; Alaska); Gold rushes; Streets; Wooden sidewalks; Saloon; White Pass; Skagway; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7001

Gold seekers who were headed to the Klondike gold fields via White Pass landed in Skagway, Alaska. The weather and the conditions on the White Pass Trail were so bad that people sometimes got stuck in Skagway for several days before they could head north. Businesses in Skagway took advantage of this...