1920s travel on the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad

This clip shows tourists traveling from Skagway, Alaska, to Whitehorse, Canada, on the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad during the late 1920s, about a quarter century following the Klondike Gold Rush. An estimated 100,000 gold-seekers from around the globe set out toward the Klondike region of the Yukon in northwestern Canada between 1896 and 1899. Only 30,000-40,000 were successful in reaching their destination; many of them traveled along roughly the same route shown in this clip. The rest turned back enroute or succumbed to various tragedies before reaching the gold fields (B&W/Silent/35mm film).
This sequence is an excerpt from AAF-8999 from the UAF collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
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