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Monument Pays Horses Tribute. MONUMENT PAYS HORSES TRIBUTE SKAGWAY, Alaska.—"The dead are speaking," one reads on a monument set high on the mountainside as he goes over the trail of '9S, Skagway to Carcross, in Yukon territory. It is a monument at Dead Horse Gulch, erected by the pio...
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ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/92170 2023-05-15T15:53:10+02:00 Northwest History. Alaska, United States. Spokesman Review 1937-08-21 Monument Pays Horses Tribute. 1937-08-21 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/92170 English eng nwh-sh-10-8-194 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/92170 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Northwest History Alaska box 10 monument tribute Skagway Alaska Carcross Yukon territory Dead Horse Gulch Alaska-Yukon trail White Pass City Lynn canal gold rush The Detroit News Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Text Clippings 1937 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:18:56Z Monument Pays Horses Tribute. MONUMENT PAYS HORSES TRIBUTE SKAGWAY, Alaska.—"The dead are speaking," one reads on a monument set high on the mountainside as he goes over the trail of '9S, Skagway to Carcross, in Yukon territory. It is a monument at Dead Horse Gulch, erected by the pioneers of the golden norlh and the Alaska- Yukon trail hikers, to the 3000 horses that died at this place. The monument overlooks the White Pass City that, was a stopping place for gold seekers, now abandoned. Through the canyon walls one catches a glimpse of lovely Lynn canal, end of the inside passage. Pack Horses "Speak." "In memory of us three thousand pack horses that laid our bodies on these awfull hills during the gold rush of 1897-1898 we now thank those listening souls that heard our groans across the stretch of years," th* monument, reads. For nine miles of the While Pass, teams were used in moving freight. But beyond that, the trail would scarcely give a horse passage. Men who knew nothing whatever of how to pack a horse so that the load would stay on, were blind to the sufferings caused by the friction of the pack. Many o.' the horses died of starvation, and were tossed into the gulch below. Horses that stumbled and broke their legs on this rough trail were shot, and they, too, went down into the eulch.—The Detroit News. Text Carcross Skagway Alaska Yukon Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Carcross ENVELOPE(-134.704,-134.704,60.166,60.166) Detroit ENVELOPE(-60.000,-60.000,-64.167,-64.167) Gulch ENVELOPE(-61.483,-61.483,-63.997,-63.997) Pacific The Monument ENVELOPE(162.250,162.250,-72.583,-72.583) White Pass ENVELOPE(-135.143,-135.143,59.613,59.613) Yukon |
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Monument Pays Horses Tribute. MONUMENT PAYS HORSES TRIBUTE SKAGWAY, Alaska.—"The dead are speaking," one reads on a monument set high on the mountainside as he goes over the trail of '9S, Skagway to Carcross, in Yukon territory. It is a monument at Dead Horse Gulch, erected by the pioneers of the golden norlh and the Alaska- Yukon trail hikers, to the 3000 horses that died at this place. The monument overlooks the White Pass City that, was a stopping place for gold seekers, now abandoned. Through the canyon walls one catches a glimpse of lovely Lynn canal, end of the inside passage. Pack Horses "Speak." "In memory of us three thousand pack horses that laid our bodies on these awfull hills during the gold rush of 1897-1898 we now thank those listening souls that heard our groans across the stretch of years," th* monument, reads. For nine miles of the While Pass, teams were used in moving freight. But beyond that, the trail would scarcely give a horse passage. Men who knew nothing whatever of how to pack a horse so that the load would stay on, were blind to the sufferings caused by the friction of the pack. Many o.' the horses died of starvation, and were tossed into the gulch below. Horses that stumbled and broke their legs on this rough trail were shot, and they, too, went down into the eulch.—The Detroit News. |
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