The Skagway Story: A History of Alaska's most Famous Gold-Rush Town and Some of the People Who Made that History

by Clifford, Howard

• ISBN13: 9780973268348
• ISBN10: 0973268344
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Wolf Creek Books

Summary

Skagways' past as a rip-roaring gold rush town is captured inThe Skagway Story. This intriguing little book is just like a scrapbook, filled with photographs from dusty trunks in attics, recollections from pioneers who were there, and memorabilia of long-buried local residents. Learn about the glory days of Skagway, known as the Gateway to the Klondike--the discovery of the Klondike goldfields in 1896, the ordeal of the stampeders trudging over the grueling Chilkoot Pass in the winter of 1897, the 1898 shootout between con man Soapy Smith and city official Frank Reid, the completion of the narrow-guage White Pass & Yukon Route railroad in 1900, and other milestones in the history of the North's most famous bonanza.

Table of Contents

SKAGWAY'S FIRST SETTLER	1	(9)
THE RUSH BEGINS	10	(4)
SOAPY SMITH COMES AND GOES	14	(12)
THE MILITARY RESTORES ORDER	26	(4)
CHURCHMEN ENTER THE PICTURE	30	(6)
THE POSTAL SERVICE	36	(5)
AND THE NEWSPAPERS	41	(5)
ENTERTAINMENT: GOOD, BAD AND INDIFFERENT	46	(3)
KIRMSE'S JEWELRY	49	(5)
AND WOMEN ARRIVE	54	(9)
BUILDERS, RESTAURANTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS	63	(10)
A CLEAN START	73	(10)
THE MONEY LENDER	83	(1)
THE MOLLIE WALSH STORY	84	(8)
A COLORFUL CHARACTER	92	(4)
ONE WOMAN'S FAMILY	96	(4)
LANDMARK BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTED	100	(4)
PEOPLE MUST EAT	104	(2)
TRANSPORTATION, A PROBLEM DEMANDING SOLUTION	106	(7)
THE WHITE PASS RAILROAD	113	(16)
MORE RAILROAD WORKERS	129	(3)
THERE ARE THOSE WHO NEVER GAVE UP	132	(4)
METROPOLIS OF THE NORTH	136	(3)
AN ATTEMPTED HOLDUP	139	(3)
KERN'S CASTLE	142	(3)
ANOTHER MEMORABLE FOURTH	145	(4)
IN THE LORD'S WORK	149	(5)
AN EARLY DAY CONVENTION	154	(3)
AND TEMPERANCE ARRIVES	157	(4)
SKAGWAY COMES A LONG WAY	161	(5)
A NATIONAL PARK	166	(2)
THE CARCROSS CONNECTION	168