DAWSON CITY, the Yukon Territory — The first tourists to Dawson City arrived in July of 1898, a few weeks before the boomtown’s second birthday. Mrs. Mary E. Hitchcock (widow of a U.S. Navy officer) ...
In 1978, Michael Gates was a young museum conservator living in Dawson City in Canada’s Yukon Territory when he encountered Frank Barrett, a local alderman and deputy mayor. Barrett had been ...