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Keywords: Fording Dyea River with cart full of supplies on the Chilkoot Trail, Alaska, 1897 (LAROCHE 170).jpeg check categories 9 June 2016 4 Photograph Creator Frank La Roche Caption on image Four men hitched to cart fording Dyea River c 1897 Fording Dyea River At the second crossing about one mile and a half above the first these men are crossing with perhaps 1 000 pounds of provisions In September the river here was not far from one hundred feet wide and eighteen inches deep In spring the melting snow sometimes increases the depth of the water to four feet or more when a ferry is used as at the first crossing Here a party of five are north bound crossing and recrossing with this cart until all their supplies are over while two packers with horses are returning south after other loads Long rubber boots protect them from the water while a complete outfit appears upon the cart so that they can pitch their tents whrever circumstances demand Frank La Roche En Route to the Klondike 1898 Klondike Gold Rush Subjects LCTGM Fords Stream crossings --Alaska; Rivers--Alaska; Carts wagons--Alaska; Horses--Alaska Subjects LCSH Chilkoot Trail; Trails--Alaska; Dyea River Alaska depicted place Alaska 1897 Institution University of Washington UWASH-LAROCHE-source accession number laroche 170 PD-old-auto-1923 1936 Information field Order Number LAR202 People fording Vehicles fording Animals fording Wagons in the United States Horses of the United States Taiya River Chilkoot Trail Klondike Gold Rush 1897 in Alaska Black and white photographs
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