[attachment 137898 100N-0487.1_DSC.JPG] Downtown Skagway looks just like a 1900 gold rush town should look. The gold here now, though, is tourism.
[attachment 137899 100N-0477.1_DSC.JPG] Grave marker of "Soapy" Smith, "the baddest man in the whole damn town". He ran all the con games and crime in Skagway. Killed by Frank Reid. "Soapy" was buried six feet outside the cemetary so as not to desecrate it for other "good" citizens,
[attachment 137900 100N-0478.1_DSC.JPG] Grave marker of Frank Reid. He died from wounds from the fight in which he killed "Soapy" Smith. The town erected this monument.
[attachment 137902 100N-0502.1_DSC.JPG] The "Sawtooth" mountains near the White Pass.
[attachment 137903 100N-0515.1_DSC.JPG] The "White Pass" was the barrier that "Stampeeders' had to get over to get to Canada and the gold fields. Canadian authorities required that each person had to have 2000 pounds of supples before they would be allowed to cross. It all had to be packed up and over the "pass". Hundreds of horses and mules were killed getting there through "Dead Horse Gulch"
[attachment 137904 100N-0522.1_DSC.JPG]I believe this is part of "Dead Horse Gulch" on the way to the "White Pass.
[attachment 137899 100N-0477.1_DSC.JPG] Grave marker of "Soapy" Smith, "the baddest man in the whole damn town". He ran all the con games and crime in Skagway. Killed by Frank Reid. "Soapy" was buried six feet outside the cemetary so as not to desecrate it for other "good" citizens,
[attachment 137900 100N-0478.1_DSC.JPG] Grave marker of Frank Reid. He died from wounds from the fight in which he killed "Soapy" Smith. The town erected this monument.
[attachment 137902 100N-0502.1_DSC.JPG] The "Sawtooth" mountains near the White Pass.
[attachment 137903 100N-0515.1_DSC.JPG] The "White Pass" was the barrier that "Stampeeders' had to get over to get to Canada and the gold fields. Canadian authorities required that each person had to have 2000 pounds of supples before they would be allowed to cross. It all had to be packed up and over the "pass". Hundreds of horses and mules were killed getting there through "Dead Horse Gulch"
[attachment 137904 100N-0522.1_DSC.JPG]I believe this is part of "Dead Horse Gulch" on the way to the "White Pass.