Background
Arriving in Dawson
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4

Week 5

Haskell's Stories

Extracts from Haskell's experience of the Klondike.


List of supplies needed to get to the Klondike and survive for a year. Most people lost a lot of their supplies on the journey though.


Despite the myth that the streets were paved with gold in Alaska, there were many hardships and often people didn't even break even on what they had spent to get to the gold fields and to mine there.

Some of Haskell's stories he tells are just really funny like this legend of the Old Woman Rock.

Hey ladies get a load of this ....