“GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE TRYING
TO PUSH THROUGH”: KLONDIKE STAMPEDER
  WRITES EN ROUTE TO THE GOLD FIELDS

A lively letter by a future Washington State mover and shaker who joined the Klondike Gold Rush as early as 1897 and later served as Washington State Librarian and president of a Tacoma-based lumber company.  This letter is addressed to Nellie Gabel White of Chehalis, Washington State, who ran the.....