(Part 2)
Last week, banker David Doig and his Mountie escort evaded the notorious Soapy Smith’s gang in Skagway and made it over the dreaded Chilkoot Pass to Lake Lindemann, BC.
They were delivering more than $1 million in cash to open a bank in Dawson City during the Klondike gold rush.
The conclusion to ‘Overland to the Yukon” in this week’s BC Chronicles.
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PHOTO: Unlike these fortune seekers who had to haul their provisions over the snow-bound Chilkoot Pass in winter, banker David Doig and his companions were able to do it in mid-summer when the worst of their ordeal was having to bear the smell of decaying horse flesh. —BC Archives
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