The history of Chilkoot Pass and the ages-old trail which crossed it, not only in the Klondike gold rush era, but long before then as a vital trade route for the coastal Tlingit Indians, and later as an access route for the earliest gold prospectors, along with a large number of scientists, military expeditions, explorers and adventurers.
Also in this issue is a look at the great Davidson Ditch, north of Fairbanks, and the historic meeting of the Tanana Chiefs in 1915. Esther Birdsall Darling was the author of classics such as 'Baldy of Nome' and 'Navarre of the North,' but was also a high society lady from a wealthy California olive-growing family. Ella Rhodes Higginson, Washington State’s first Poet Laureate, and author of 'Alaska, The Great Country,' published in 1908. This issue concludes with an article about the Bard of the Yukon, Robert Service, who penned the immortal lines of favorite northern ballads such as 'The Spell of the Yukon,' 'The Shoorting of Dan McGrew,' and 'The Cremation of Sam McGee.'
