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Summit of White Pass - Excursion Train

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Stock #:716418
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Skagway
State: Alaska (AK)
County: Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon
Publisher: The Albertype Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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The above is a photograph of a train of the White Pass and Yukon R.R. taken at the international boundary line between the United States and Canada at the summit (2800 feet elevation) of White Pass. During the years 1897-8 over 20,000 prospectors passed the spot on foot in a mad endeavor to be the first to put pick into the ground covering the greatest deposit of virgin gold in the history of the world. The summit is 21 miles from Skagway and is visited yearly by hundreds of tourists to whom a special train is given for this purpose.

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