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Alaskan Roadhouses – 1890s

Mushing in Alaska

Roadhouses in Alaska, before motorised travel, were both a feature of safety in the bitterly cold wilderness, and a license to print money for the operators Arthur Dallimore journeyed from England in the early 1890s to settle in New Zealand. When he heard about the gold rush in Alaska’s Klondike, he jumped onto a boat […]