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The SS Keno celebrated the 50th anniversary of its final voyage to Dawson on July 3 with cake, kids games and tours of the boat. While some 60 steamboats, along with a complement of tug and barges, were at the Dawson docks within a year of the Klondike Gold Rush, none of them have survived...
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Here is a fascinating collection of vintage hand drawn maps from 1926 showing the main channel of the Yukon River from Dawson to Whitehorse. Other points of interest are shown on the maps as well, such as cordwood pickup points to feed the paddle wheelers traveling up and down the river.
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