Word: chilkoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hitch-and-kick* at eight feet. He put together a nondescript dog team, began mushing supplies for the sourdoughs. He blazed a 1,400 mile dog-team trail from Dawson to Nome. He toted a piano on his back up the 1,200 ft. of Chilkoot Pass. With a corpse as cargo, he mushed over the mountains, 400 miles from Fairbanks to Valdez, in 28 days...
More likely for future development is the northern half of the Alcan, with its link to Haines. From tidewater on the Inside Passage at Haines (site of Chilkoot Barracks, longtime Army post) the cutoff climbs through Chilkat Pass, lower and easier than famed Chilkoot Pass of gold-rush days. Scenically the route is as spectacular as the well-advertised Banff-Jasper Highway in the Canadian Rockies...
...hero of The Gold Rush is billed as The Lone Prospector, a tenderfoot out for Alaskan gold. In his running narrative, Chaplin calls him "the Little Fellow." With eloquent timing he jaunts along the rim of a ledge high in Chilkoot Pass, unknowingly trailed by a big black bear, and the picture is away...
...lower Yukon Valley back of Bethel and the tundra south of Point Barrow. This summer the U. S. Army landed at Anchorage the first big contingent of troops the territory had seen in 40 years. The only other sizable garrison in Alaska consists of some 400 infantrymen at Chilkoot Barracks, a station not far from Skagway which was set up in the gold rush of '98. Tactically unimportant, Chilkoot's cold-weather garrison is likely to dwindle to a maintenance force, and Chil-koot's sourdoughboys are likely to be detailed to other Alaska stations...
...spite of Alaska's strategic position, the U. S. never wasted money on Alaskan defenses because until recently Alaska was never threatened. From gold rush days in 1898 until a few months ago, its military garrison never consisted of more than 400 infantry soldiers at Chilkoot Barracks not far from the Skagway. One of their main jobs was to increase the Army's knowledge of cold-weather living and maneuvering. Then the U. S. found out that the U. S. S. R. was extending its bases north along the Siberian coast, and that Japan had built a naval...