Mareta and I went to Carcross, Yukon Canada for a few days to stay at a friends cabin on a lake. It was my goal to stop and explore several ghost towns on the way there. We started in Liarsville an old gold rush camp the first reporters would stop at and issues stories during the Yukon Gold Rush. Then a quick trip over to Dyea During the Klondike Gold Rush prospectors disembarked at its port and used the Chilkoot Trail, a Tlingit trade route over the Coast Mountains, to begin their journey to the gold fields around Dawson City, Yukon, about 800 km (500 mi) away. Off to the Town of Log Cabin an old gold rush community. Then Dail Creek known historically as Wynton Creek. A small town called Wynton was located on the alluvial fan to the right in 1905-1906. It boasted 2 hotels for a couple of years. The hotels were built here, in British Columbia just a few feet from the Yukon border, to avoid high liquor taxes in the Yukon while serving the miners working the slopes above. Finally ending at Conrad City a mining town that came about through the efforts of one John Howard Conrad. An American financier, Conrad left the Lower 48 to consolidate a string of gold, silver, and lead claims on steep rock face of Montana Mountain near Carcross.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 08:48:30 +0000
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