Yukon

The frozen Yukon River, snaking its way to the Bering Sea, was visible from my window on the Cessna.

I would guess—Yukon to Anzick—perhaps at least a couple hundred years.

We wanted to take it a step further and went to the Yukon in December 2007.

Again, the experience in the Yukon gold rush is instructive.

Back in 1896, when gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek in the Yukon Territory, America was reeling.

The magnificent Yukon river runs through the territory, and steamers of light draft can sail on its waters for 1,500 miles.

See him as he journeys down the Yukon in a scow loaded with lumber for a mission building.

A second route was by the Chilkoot trail, which had been used for many years by miners going into the country of the Yukon.

Those who went by ocean steamer had to transfer to flat-bottomed boats to go up the Yukon River.

Mackenzie and Yukon—Men: Shirt-coat, legging-moccasins, breech-cloth, hat and hood.