Chilkoot Trail
- The Klondike Gold Rush started travel through this passage.
- People thought they could get gold.
- Rich landowners took an alternate route by sea and bought all of the land.
- Nobody could get any gold.
- People thought they could get gold.
- Now a national park
- Spans 33 miles
- Would take three months to travel due to the need to carry 2000 pounds from Seattle up to Dawson
- People would establish caches of supplies
- Mounties would not allow people across the border unless they had "enough" supplies
- Would take three months to travel due to the need to carry 2000 pounds from Seattle up to Dawson
- "Longest Museum in the World"
- Gets this title because of how many artifacts are still on the trail.
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