By J. D. True.  Also, included is a bookmark from Skaguay News Depot--Historic Broadway's Largest Bookseller(Skagway, AK.).  ISBN 0-945284-00-4.  From the back cover: "The White Pass and Yukon Route is one of the most famous narrow gauge reailroads in the world, and J.D. True was an engineer on the line for more than 40 years.  Relive the experiences of the "Hoghead on the White Pass" in this collection of letters written to relaltives, friends and railfans from 1974 until his retirement in 1983.  J.D. gives day-to-day accounts of his last decade on the White Pass with himself on the headend, in addition to harking back to the days of steam engines and rotary snowplows."

Along the White Pass High Iron

True, J. D.

Literature & Fiction

Lynn Canal Pub

Our summer in Alaska, 1917

Swensen, Huberta

A WRITER OF ACCOUNTS OF HIS ADVENTURES IN THE KLONDIKE. THE NORTHS 1ST NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST

Klondike Newsman: Stroller White

Dearmond, R. N.

Contemporary

The full title of this book is Best of the Skagway, Alaska Police Blotter and Other True Tales from Alaska's Fun City and includes "raw" police blotter entries which have been transformed for 17 years into a popular column in The Skagway News. Author Jeff Brady is publisher of The Skagway News and in his Acknowledgements states: "We are reminded of the motto of the Bigger Hammer Marching Band: 'In Skagway, we take humor seriously.' "

Best of the Skagway, Alaska Police Blotter: And Other True Tales from Alaska's Fun City

Humor & Entertainment

Jeff Brady

Mike Sica

Humor

Shgagwéi, as it was first called centuries ago by the Tlingit for the "bunched up water" in its bay caused by strong winds, was discovered in 1887 by a father and son with visions of a gateway port to the riches of the Yukon and Alaska. Ten years later, after the discovery of gold in the Klondike, their vision came true with the arrival of prospectors from all over the world. Skaguay and nearby Dyea were rival towns, booming from the rush for gold. Each had multiple newspapers which chronicled the stampede and the competition between the White and Chilkoot passes, but Skagway won the war with the construction of the White Pass & Yukon Route railway and settled on a way to spell its name.  The community has survived smaller booms and busts since, but remains a vital tourism and industrial port as the Gateway to the Klondike. In 1898 editors called Skagway the "City of the New Century". In this book of stories and photographs, the rich history of this area and its people is chronicled through that new century, and into the next.

Skagway City of the New Century: The True Story of Skagway, Alaska - Including the White Pass, Dyea, and the Chilkoot Trail

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Judged Alaska s best sports and outdoors columnist for the past decade, Skagway, Alaska writer Andrew Cremata has collected his "Fish This!" stories into one entertaining volume. More than a compilation of fishing stories, Fish This! An Alaskan Story tells about life in a small Alaska town and the streams nearby where one can escape to and enjoy time in the outdoors.

Fish This!: An Alaskan Story

Sports & Outdoors

Cremata, Andrew

Hunting & Fishing

The Arctic Brotherhood, a fraternal order that emerged from the Klondike Gold Rush, established itself in 1899 in the boomtowns of Skagway, Bennett, Atlin, and Dawson City and then spread into the Alaska Interior and all the way to Nome. In this captivating history by Ashley Bowman, a descendant of an Arctic Brother, we learn all the quirks of this order and how its camp members influenced the Alaska Home Rule movement before the Brotherhood quickly faded away in the 1920s. A few A.B. Halls still stand in the North, including ornate structures in Skagway and Dawson, a testament to the order and its motto: No Boundary Line Here.

The Arctic Brotherhood: The Story of Alaska-Yukon's Most Influential Order

History

Bowman, Ashley

Americas

Henry Stillwater was once a big shot in the world of finance, until he went to prison. Now he is out and has been given a ticket north to a new life on the edge of the wilderness in the tiny old gold rush settlement of Dyea (pronounced Di-eee) near Skagway, Alaska. 
 It doesn't take long for the residents to figure out who their new neighbor is, and what to make of him. Henry falls right in with a new gang of cronies and their peculiar loves and misdeeds, but it s not what you think, and he will have to figure out whether this strange place will be his new home.

Nowhere Else to Go but Dyea

Nettleton, Nita

Best of the skagway Police Blotter Volume II is the long-awaited second volume of the best from the log books of the Skagway Police Department. Also included are excerpts from the popular "Heard on the Wind" column in The Skagway News, choice comments and questions from visitors that make everyone laugh.

Best of the Skagway Police Blotter

Dave Sexton

In this sequel to Nowhere Else to Go, but Dyea, we find transplanted white collar ex-convict Henry Stillwater with his poker-playing fellow "felons" in the middle of a mystery in the historic ghost town of Dyea (pronounced Di-eee). Stillwater has settled into a new life and love in the valley at the end of Alaska's Inside Passage, but his peace is disturbed by the discovery of a body, and a treasure of sorts that seemingly eludes all who pursue it, including wild, unruly critters large and small. Complicating Stillwater's life is a visit by the attorney daughter who sent him away to Alaska, but she too is absorbed by the mystery and where it takes them - to the summit of the Chilkoot Trail.

The Dyea Convicted Felons Club

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