Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back from four months of exploration in the little known regions of Yukon territory, Alaska, H. Adams Carter of Dunster House, Ex-President of the Mountaineering Club, reported yesterday that the National Geographic-Washburn Expedition had discovered four or five mountains hitherto unknown and uncharted. In memory of England's Silver Jubilee, two of the mountains were named King George and Queen Mary...
Each of these has an altitude of over 13,000 feet. They are in the Southwest corner of Yukon Territory. The Expedition, led by H. Bradford Washburn '33, comprised six men, three of whom are Harvard men; Robert H. Bates being the third...
...expedition also crossed from Yukon Territory over the mountains to the Alaskan coast. This is the first time an expedition has accomplished this feat...
Only a few summer tourists now go to Skagway, Alaska, but at the height of the Yukon gold rush (1897-98) 75,000 of them tumbled hopefully ashore to seek their fortune or somebody else's. Today Skagway is a ghost town, but one of its ghosts has left his mark-a 30-ft. skull carved on the face of a cliff. That is Skagway's memorial to Soapy Smith...
When gold was discovered in Bonanza Creek in Canada's Yukon Territory, Skagway became the port of entry for the trek up over White Pass toward sudden wealth. Friends warned Soapy Alaska would be a tough proposition, but to Soapy it looked like his big chance. With his time-tested crew of bunco-steerers, con men and cappers he started a saloon in Skagway, set out to captivate that leaderless town. He did it, but it was hard going. The thugs and strong-arm men he could not control gave Skagway such a bad name that the law-&-order...