Mollie Walsh, a fixture in the great Klondike Gold Rush, came to Skagway in 1897. Five years later back in Seattle, her husband chased her down an alley and shot her dead. Good businesswoman–terrible husband picker. In Skagway Mollie sized up the situation. Most of the gold rushers coming through moved out of Skagway to …
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Luck Led to Romance
Luck led to romance, not what you would expect for a soldier on the Alaska Highway Project in 1942. But some men get way more luck than others. Donald Hall had almost blown himself up applying a torch to a gas tank full of fumes. He survived. That should have told us all we needed …