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As Precious as Gold
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The Exhibition

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Exhibition entrance

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Dog sled

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Skookum Jim, Dawson Charlie and three other people staning in front of a small building .
Discovery

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The Golden Stairs, 1500 steps uphill from the tent city Scales, over the mountain to the Chilkoot Pass summit.
Getting to the Gold

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Hundreds of Americans celebrating the fourth of July in Dawson, Canada in 1900
Americans Abroad

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An American mail carrier and his dog team on the trail near Circle City, Alaska.
Mail Service

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As Precious as Gold

  • The Exhibition
    • Discovery
    • Getting to the Gold
    • Americans Abroad
    • Mail Service
  • Stories from the Gold Rush
    • Banking on the Stampeders - Dyea vs. Skagway
    • The Trails
      • Trails to the Klondike
    • Palm Sunday Avalanche!
    • Bennett and Lindeman: Tent Cities on the Lakes
    • Running the Rapids
    • Mail and Mail Carriers
      • Stars of the Trail
      • N. A. Beddoe - One Mail Contractor's View
    • Stampeders and their Mail
    • Starvation and Disease
    • The Great Nome Gold Rush
      • Getting to Nome
      • Lockley's Idea
      • The Service Begins
      • Inside the Nome Post Office
      • Serving a Fluid Population
      • Faithful Carriers
      • Excerpts: Final Thoughts
    • Extraordinary Women
      • Belinda Mulrooney - The Richest Woman in the Klondike
      • Kate Carmack - Shaaw Tlaa
      • Harriett Pullen - "Ma"
      • Ethel Berry - Bride of the Klondike
        • Getting to the Big Strike
        • Ethel Goes to the Klondike
        • Across the Chilkoot Pass
        • Sailing Down the Yukon River
        • Dawson and the Gold Fields
      • Mary Hitchcock and Edith Van Buren - Klondike Tourists
        • Steaming into Dawson
        • First Day in Dawson
        • We Become Squatters
        • The Tent Disappoints
        • A Trek to the Gold Fields
        • A Few Days in the Gold Fields
        • On the Trip Out
    • John Philip Clum, Gold Rush Postal Inspector
    • Literature of the Gold Rush
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Exhibition Outline
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