Word: skagway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henderson sailed once more. Contrary to schedule she put in at Skagway. Skagway is now a village of about 500 inhabitants but once it had 20,000 people and was the starting point of the famous White Horse Trail in the days of the great gold rush to the Yukon. The President went to the chief hotel and delivered a short address, reviewing the history of the town. Mrs. Harding was presented with a bouquet of dahlias, each flower almost a foot in diameter. There the President became a member of the Arctic Brotherhood and took an oath never...