Letter from a prospector recounting the arduous journey over Chilkoot Pass to reach the Yukon gold fields
Sheep Camp on Chilkoot Trail near Dyea, Alaska: 1898. Unbound. This four-page, unsigned letter was sent to “Friend Alice” by a prospector while in route to the gold fields from the Alaskan port of Dyea. Two stereoviews of the climb are included. In the late summer of 1896 when news... More