CSPN Home History & Literature PNQ Curriculum Packets Course Index News & Events Resources Contact Us UW Home
curriculum packet main page

Document 56: Letter from T. T. Barbour, Dawson City.


You never saw such sights as we did coming down river. The crazy people. At the mouth of every river coming into the Yukon there were thousands camped....tents for miles on each side of the mouth of every stream, but as yet no strikes or reports....Coming into Dawson you never saw such a sight. For miles up and down the river and up on the mountain sides across the river, was a mass of tents. We had to land two miles above the town...

—letter from T. T. Barbour, Dawson City, 26 June 1898; reprinted in Alton (Iowa) Democrat; from John Clark Hunt, ed. "The Adventures of the Iowa Goldseekers," Alaska Journal 3 (Winter 1973), p. 2-11.

#56


Return to Document Concordance

©Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington. All rights reserved.