3-086-280 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

On the Way to Klondike: views of Wrangel, Alaska, and the Stikine-Teslin and Chilcoot Routes, 1898. 'Gold-seekers, with their dogs in crates, on the steam-ship "Islander" on the way to Wrangel. Gold-seekers travelling from the American and Canadian coast cities are landed, after an ocean voyage of seven hundred or more miles, at Wrangel, in the strip of Alaska which runs far down the British Columbia coast. They are taken up the Stikine River 140 miles by river-steamer to Glenora, at the head of navigation. They are then transported by wagon (later by train) 150 miles or less to the south end or head of Teslin Lake. From this they can travel by river-steamer, or float in their own hand-made boats, 62 miles down the lake, and 340 miles down the Hootalinquia (Teslin or Newberry) and Lewes rivers to Fort Selkirk, then 172 miles down the Yukon to Dawson City. This is a total distance from Vancouver (British Columbia) to Dawson City of 1542 miles...An advance guard of some fifteen hundred miners went up the ice of the Stikine from Wrangel to Glenora this spring, having their outfits drawn by dogs, goats, burros, oxen, and horses.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.