Over Chilkoot Pass During The Gold Rush In Alaska

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Stock #: 42522

Type: Postcard

Era: Linen

City: Scenic

State: Alaska (AK)

Publisher: Northwest Mazine Distributing Co.

Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Thousands of Gold Seekers used this Trail. News of the sensational discoveries of gold in Alaska in 1896-98, startled the world. Fifty thousand gold hunters from far and wide stampeded into Alaska. Distance and inaccessibility of the field, the hardships and vicissitudes only tended to make the diggings more attractive. To cross the divide over back-breaking, hazardous Chilkoot Pass, a climb of 11 miles, is one of the outstanding memories of a glamorous past.

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CHILKOOT PASS News of the sensational discoveries of gold in Alaska in 1896-98, startled the world. Fifty thousand gold hunters from far and wide stampeded into Alaska. Distance and inac- cessibility of the field, the hardships and vicissitudes only tended to make the diggings more attractive. To cross the divide over back-breaking, hazardous Chilkoot Pass, a climb of 11 miles, is one of the outstanding memories of a glamorous past. DISTRIBUTED BY NORTHWEST MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTING CO., SEATTLE, WASH.

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