By J. D. True.  Also, included is a bookmark from Skaguay News Depot--Historic Broadway's Largest Bookseller(Skagway, AK.).  ISBN 0-945284-00-4.  From the back cover: "The White Pass and Yukon Route is one of the most famous narrow gauge reailroads in the world, and J.D. True was an engineer on the line for more than 40 years.  Relive the experiences of the "Hoghead on the White Pass" in this collection of letters written to relaltives, friends and railfans from 1974 until his retirement in 1983.  J.D. gives day-to-day accounts of his last decade on the White Pass with himself on the headend, in addition to harking back to the days of steam engines and rotary snowplows."

Along the White Pass High Iron

True, J. D.

Literature & Fiction

Lynn Canal Pub

Our summer in Alaska, 1917

Swensen, Huberta

<p>A WRITER OF ACCOUNTS OF HIS ADVENTURES IN THE KLONDIKE. THE NORTHS 1ST NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST</p>

Klondike Newsman: Stroller White

Dearmond, R. N.

Contemporary

Shgagwéi, as it was first called centuries ago by the Tlingit for the "bunched up water" in its bay caused by strong winds, was discovered in 1887 by a father and son with visions of a gateway port to the riches of the Yukon and Alaska. Ten years later, after the discovery of gold in the Klondike, their vision came true with the arrival of prospectors from all over the world. Skaguay and nearby Dyea were rival towns, booming from the rush for gold. Each had multiple newspapers which chronicled the stampede and the competition between the White and Chilkoot passes, but Skagway won the war with the construction of the White Pass & Yukon Route railway and settled on a way to spell its name.  The community has survived smaller booms and busts since, but remains a vital tourism and industrial port as the Gateway to the Klondike. In 1898 editors called Skagway the "City of the New Century". In this book of stories and photographs, the rich history of this area and its people is chronicled through that new century, and into the next.

Skagway City of the New Century: The True Story of Skagway, Alaska - Including the White Pass, Dyea, and the Chilkoot Trail

Arts & Photography

Jeff Brady

Photography & Video

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