“Alaska and the Yukon this year is the mecca of many travelers, as it was for a different reason almost four decades ago. The first rush up the trail of ’98 from Vancouver to Skagway and on to Dawson was of men and women fired with the greed of gold. Today’s rush is a more easily satisfied desire for the gold of health and nature’s beauty – achieved in comfortable fashion.
From Vancouver to Skagway run the Canadian Pacific ‘Princess’ liners, fine ships which course in and out of the peaceful inner passage, past Indian villages, old mining towns, fishing waters and great blue glaciers. And from Skagway runs a gallant railway up the gorge where in the olden days men staggered with horses and dogs from rock to rock, many of them to fall into the gulch far below. Lovely Lake Bennett, West Taku Arm and Lake Atlin are touched by rail and steamers of this White Pass and Yukon, and one may in a week or 10 days make the trip down the great Yukon river to Dawson at the arctic circle, where during summer the sun scarcely sets and flowers bloom in great profusion.”
(The Omaha Bee-News – Omaha, Nebraska)
