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| Title | Klondikers with packtrain on the Chilkoot Trail, Alaska, 1897. |
| Photographer | La Roche, Frank |
| Date | 1897 |
| Notes | Caption on image: ""Pack train, Dyea Trail. c1897""
""Pack train, Dyea Canyon. This is a magnificient piece of scenery if regarded purely from a natural point of view. The unrestrained elements have produced a state of chaos; and through the wooded gulch the human trail wends its way, and man in quest of wealth and honor defies the forces of nature. Great boulders of rock and piles of broken timber bestrew the line of march and great care has to be exercised in picking out one's footsteps and also those of the beasts of burden. Accidents are not by any means a rarity; but with the necesary amount of care there is no occasion for any serious mishaps unless the weather be unpropious. Fine weather prevailed when this photograph was taken."" (Frank La Roche, En Route to the Klondike, 1898)
Klondike Gold Rush. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Pack animals--Alaska
Horses--Alaska
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Chilkoot Trail
Trails--Alaska
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| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska |
| Digital Collection | Frank La Roche Photograph Collection
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| Order Number | LAR259 |
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| Negative Number | La Roche [10041] |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Frank La Roche Photograph Collection. PH Coll 283 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 72 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3. 8/1998. |
