Skookum in Tagish means enormously strong, and the young man named Keish earned the new name Skookum Jim, hauling hundred-pound packs up the infamous trail over Chilkoot Pass. In 1892, near Dyea at the foot of the Chilkoot trail he killed a bear with his bare hands. Skookum packed supplies up the rugged Chilkoot with …
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Meeting the Inland Tlingits
We met and got to experience the Inland Tlingits by luck, and by the grace of our friends Bonner and Bess Cooley. Preparing for a publicity trip to Canada and Alaska to coincide with the release of our book, We Fought the Road, we knew we would get to visit Teslin again and we called …