Dyea was one of the major towns to grow into prominence as a result of the Klondike gold rush. A small Tlingit village and trading post for many years before the rush with a population around 138 ...

A troublesome brown bear was shot and severely wounded by a Skagway police officer on Saturday night in the Dyea campground. The injured bear has not been seen after it hobbled into the Taiya River ...

In 1896, a man by the name of Skookum Jim found gold near the Klondike River in Yukon Territory, Canada. This sparked a gold rush the next year as hopeful miners, known as "stampeders," descended upon ...

The townsite of Dyea (from the Tlingit word Dayéi, meaning “to pack”) sits at the beginning of the Chilkoot Trail. During 1897/1898 it was a fierce competitor with neighboring Skagway, just five miles ...

DYEA, Alaska (AP) - If the Dyea dirt could talk, what a story it would tell. Back in 1897, this now-abandoned gold rush boom town nine miles out of Skagway supported 8,000 people and 150 businesses ...

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“Nowhere Else to Go, but Dyea,” by Nita Nettleton. Lynn Canal Publishing, 2015. 208 pages. $14.95. “The Dyea Convicted Felons Club,” by Nita Nettleton. Lynn Canal Publishing, 2018. 240 pages. $14.95.

If you've been waiting the last few years to hike the famous Chilkoot Trail in its entirety — well, you may need to wait a bit longer. The American portion of the historic international trail is ...

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Nov. 3 (UPI) --A woman walking on an Alaska beach is trying to unravel the mystery of an unusual discovery: a message in a bottle apparently launched in 1987. Pam Joy of Skagway said she was walking ...