Dawson City, the centre of the Klondike gold rush of 1897 and 1898, is a remote town underlain by permafrost. The first gravel road coming up from Whitehorse was not completed until 1955. Before that, for about five months out of the year the main access to the town was by boat, and when the Yukon River froze…
Michael Gates
Michael Gates is the author of Hollywood in the Klondike.