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y Skagway

After pioneers George Washington Carmack, Skookum Jim
Mason, and Dawson Charlie discovered gold in the Klondike
in the late 1890s, steamboat captain William Moore founded
Skagway as a gateway to the goldfields. Over 30,000 hopeful SKAGWAY
prospectors passed through in the first year, seeking supplies
and entertainment and helping the town to boom. The 1900
completion of the White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad (WP&YR)
made the trip easier, but the Gold Rush was already subsiding.
Skagway was revived in the 1940s as an Alaska Highway con­ Locator Map
struction staging camp, and today, the town’s economy Area illustrated
is driven mainly by tourism.

. Arctic Brotherhood Hall
The front of this building,
housing the Skagway
Visitor Information Center, is
decorated with thousands of
pieces of driftwood. Library
S T A T E S T R E E T S T A T E S T R E E T

Soapy Smith’s 2 N D A V E N U E 3 R D A V E N U E 4 T H A V E N U E 7 T H A V E N U E 8 T H A V E N U E
1 S T A V E N U E
Saloon U.S.
Post Office
. Red Onion Saloon Chilkoot Trail
Center
The 1898 Red Onion still B R O A D W A Y B R O A D W A Y
retains the bar from the
days when it served as a
saloon and brothel. It offers
the Brothel Tour, conducted 5 T H A V E N U E 6 T H A V E N U E
by appropri ately clad
young ladies. Mollie Walsh
Railroad
Station Park
S P R I N G S T R E E T
Moore
House

White Pass and Yukon
Route Railroad Depot
In the summer, trains set
off from here daily, offering
journeys through stunning
scenery (see pp152–3).
Klondike Gold Rush NHP Visitors’ Center
Now the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Visitors’
Key
Center, the original WP&YR depot, built using packing crates
Suggested route and salvaged lumber, was hurriedly con structed in 1898 to
handle the flood of prospectors.
For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp243–4 and pp253–4

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