Historical Resources

• Klondike Boats through the eyes of Edwin Tappan Adney
• A partially-built boat on the shores of Lake Lindeman, 1897
• Three identical boats, good side views, "ice sailing" on sleds on ice on Lake LaBerge 1897
• Bennett sawmill area photograph
• The "batten" mystery... here, it almost looks like it might have been a "repair", applied to a troublesome seam?
• The Kerry brothers and the Lake Bennett sawmill story. Read closely. These guys packed a BOILER over Chilkoot Pass! After the sawmill the boiler ends up in a sternwheel steamboat (and is featured in the "cremation of Sam Mcgee").
• King's Mill? Was there more than one sawmill at Bennett? While most of the other stampeders at Lindeman and Bennett struggled to cut trees and whipsaw lumber to build boats with, Martha's group paid $275 to King's Mill to have theirs built. ">
• Another reference to the "king" sawmill, "who also built boats and scows for the gold rush trade from early 1897."
• Shades of Fitzcarraldo! Not ONE,but how many (!!!) steamboats were hauled over Chilkoot Pass??? Huh? (its true, read on....)