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One of the most beautiful and historic trips you can make by boat in the North is through the headwater lakes of the Yukon River, and then down the river to Dawson City. The vast series of headwater lakes includes Lake Atlin, Tagish Arm, Lake Bennett,Windy Arm,Lake Marsh and an exciting trip down the 2-mile-long Atlin River that drains this largest natural lake in British Columbia.

Gold rushes defined these lakes. Most were on the way to the Klondike during that great gold rush of 1897-98 and shortly thereafter Lake Atlin had its own gold rush, and mines were scattered along Tagish Arm and Windy Arm.

From Marsh Lake, where the Yukon River begins, to Dawson City is one of the most beautiful river trips in North America, and history has been written on nearly every mile. Remnants of the steamboat era that lasted 50 years are all along the route, and villages, most now abandoned, still stand as reminders of a way of life that is also gone.

Archie Satterfield has traveled on the lakes and rivers many times doing research for his books on the region. In addition to this history/guide, he is the author of Chilkoot Pass, After the Gold Rush and Klondike Park. He has another book about the gold rush and its participants in the works as this is written.

A Guide to the Yukon River has many maps of the lakes and river, and photos taken along the way. ... Read more

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Chapters: Steamboats of the Yukon River. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 677. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Steamboats played a huge role on the development of Alaska and the Yukon. Access to the interior of Alaska and Yukon was hindered by large mountains and distance, the wide Yukon River provided a solution. The first steamers on the lower Yukon River were work boats for the Collins Overland Telegraph in 1868 with small steamer called the Wilder. The mouth of the Yukon River was far to the west at St. Michael and a journey from Seattle or San Francisco covered some 4000 miles. There were a series of steamers owned by the Alaska Commercial Company--the Youkon of 1869, and the St. Michael of 1879. Slowly the north was being opened up with the help of river steamers. The Portus B. Weare worked the river after 1892. The discovery of gold on Rabbit Creek at Dawson City changed everything. Thousands of gold seekers headed north. Riverboats from the Pacific Northwest headed north to ply the trade. Hundreds of boats were co-opted and others were built. One dozen identical steamboats were built by Moran Bros. (hull Nos. 9-20). Yards in Seattle, Victoria, Portland, and Vancouver all built boats. The CPR Steamer service ordered more vesselsthe Moyie and the Minto, for instance, but they arrived too late for service on the Yukon. Boats were either steamed across the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea to enter the river mouth, or they were transported in pieces over the White Pass and assembled in Whitehorse. The big revenue route was from Whitehorse several hundred miles north to Dawson. Almost 300 commercial steamboats worked the Yukon River over the years. In 1900, the White Pass ... Read more

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From the author: Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus columbianus) fitted with satellite transmitters (PTTs) on the outer coast of the Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta, Alaska, migrated eastward across the Y-K Delta in late September and stopped at wetlands on the west side of the Alaska Range during early October. After crossing the Alaska Range, swans stopped briefly on the Susitna Flats of Upper Cook Inlet. They then migrated eastward into the Yukon, Canada, and from there flew southward, paralleling the Wrangell Mountains through the interior of the Yukon to a staging area in northeastern British Columbia. They gradually migrated through central Alberta and southwest Saskatchewan and across Montana to a staging area in southeastern Idaho. They remained in southeastern Idaho from mid-November until early December when they migrated across Nevada to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta of California. Spring migration routes were similar to those used in autumn. Band returns and observations of neck-banded swans corroborated the general autumn and spring migration routes of PTT-marked birds. Swans stopped only briefly ([less than]3 days) at staging areas in Alaska and northern Canada but lingered at migration areas in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Idaho. Received 23 Oct. 1996, accepted 15 April 1997.

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Title: Migration behavior of tundra swans from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska.
Author: Craig R. Ely
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1997
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: v109Issue: n4Page: p679(14)

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From the author: We studied the behavior of geese on exposed river ice during spring on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The predominant behavior while on the ice for both sexes was foraging; however, females foraged more than males. Visual inspection of the ice revealed no potential plant or animal food items. However, numerous small ([less than]20 mm) clam shells (Macoma balthica) and pieces of shell were noted. It appeared that geese were foraging on empty clam shells. This potential source of calcium was available to breeding geese just prior to egg formation and geese likely stored this calcium in the form of medullary bone for use during egg formation.

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Title: Observations of geese foraging for clam shells during spring on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska.
Author: Paul L. Flint
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1998
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: v110Issue: n3Page: p411(3)

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This digital document is an article from Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 605 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Designed to answer such key questions as: How has the U.S. Constitution shaped the economy of the United States? What were the consequences of Prohibition on consumers' behavior? This title presents era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiled, geographic profiles, and more. ... Read more

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Title: The role of glacial lakes in the pre-contact human history of southwest Yukon territory: a late drainage hypothesis.(Report)
Author: Ty Heffner
Publication: Northern Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2008
Publisher: Northern Review
Issue: 29Page: 85(20)

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