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Those traveling to the gold fields in 1897 journeyed by boat from San Francisco to Dyea or Skagway in Alaska. Skagway was just the beginning; they had a 500-mile journey ahead of them through the hazardous White Pass to Dawson City (via Lake Bennett) in Canada! The miners carried a year’s supply of food mining equipment with them.

Character Sketch of Hester Prynne Those traveling to the gold fields in 1897 journeyed by boat from San Francisco to Dyea or Skagway in Alaska. Skagway was just the beginning; they had a 500-mile journey ahead of them through the hazardous White Pass to Dawson City (via Lake Bennett) in Canada! The miners carried a year’s supply of food mining equipment with them.

Those traveling to the gold fields in 1897 journeyed by boat from San Francisco to Dyea or Skagway in Alaska. Skagway was just the beginning; they had a 500-mile journey ahead of them through the hazardous White Pass to Dawson City (via Lake Bennett) in Canada! The miners carried a year’s supply of food mining equipment with them.

Those traveling to the gold fields in 1897 journeyed by boat from San Francisco to Dyea or Skagway in Alaska. Skagway was just the beginning; they had a 500-mile journey ahead of them through the hazardous White Pass to Dawson City (via Lake Bennett) in Canada! The miners carried a year’s supply of food mining equipment with them.

Those traveling to the gold fields in 1897 journeyed by boat from San Francisco to Dyea or Skagway in Alaska. Skagway was just the beginning; they had a 500-mile journey ahead of them through the hazardous White Pass to Dawson City (via Lake Bennett) in Canada! The miners carried a year’s supply of food mining equipment with them.

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