The other is 2, 030 m high, in the Stikine Region () ( 90 km north-west from Skagway, Alaska USA ).

: NOTE: Demographic data below is for the former " Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon " Census Area, which still includes Skagway Borough.

The port of Skagway is a popular stop for cruise ships, and the tourist trade is a big part of the business of Skagway.

Skagway is also part of the setting for Jack London's book The Call of the Wild.

Skagway ( originally spelled Skaguay ) is from the Tlingit name for the area, " Skagua " or " Shԍagwei " meaning " a windy place with white caps on the water.

The Skagway area today is home to the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park and White Pass and Chilkoot Trails.

Skagway is located at ( 59. 468519, − 135. 305962 ).

Skagway is located in a narrow glaciated valley at the head of the Taiya Inlet, the north end of the Lynn Canal, which is the most northern fjord on the Inside Passage on the south coast of Alaska.

Skagway has a humid continental climate ( Köppen Dfb / Dsb ) which is very unusual for a place so far north.

Skagway is one of three Southeast Alaskan communities that is connected to the road system ; Skagway's connection is via the Klondike Highway, completed in 1978.

Skagway is served by its local semimonthly newspaper, the Skagway News, as well as regional public radio station KHNS, which has its principal studios in nearby Haines but also has studios and programs based in Skagway.

Skagway is featured in the 1955 Western The Far Country, directed by Anthony Mann.

Skagway is a town featured in the computer game Yukon Trail.

( The Kanagu rock is likely to be Face Mountain, which overlooks Skagway bay.

Today, Pioneer Square is home to art galleries, internet companies, cafés, sports bars, nightclubs, bookstores, and a unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, the other unit of which is located in Skagway, Alaska.

Nanaimo is probably the northernmost location of a Mediterranean climate ( Köppen Csb ) in the world, and is slightly shielded from the Aleutian Low ’ s influence by the mountains of central Vancouver Island, so that summers are unusually dry for its latitude and location — though summer drying as a trend is found in the immediate lee of the coastal ranges as far north as Skagway, Alaska.

It was formerly a city ( urban Skagway located at ) first incorporated in 1900 that was re-incorporated as a borough on June 25, 2007.

Due to the extremely rugged, mountainous nature of Southeastern Alaska, almost all communities ( with the exception of Hyder, Skagway, and Haines ) have no road connections outside of their locale, so aircraft and boats are the major means of transport.

* 1898 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.

The Inside Passage provides a similar route from Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, to Skagway, Alaska.

Its first trip carried 600 containers between North Vancouver, British Columbia and Skagway, Alaska, on November 26, 1955 ; in Skagway, the containers were unloaded to purpose-built railroad cars for transport north to the Yukon, in the first intermodal service using trucks, ships and railroad cars.

* In March 1898, the " 101 " of Skagway, Alaska posted handbills and held meetings trying to free the town of a bunco gang known as the " Soap Gang " under the control of the infamous Soapy Smith.

* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Eric A. Hegg Photographs 736 photographs from 1897-1901 documenting the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes, including depictions of frontier life in Skagway and Nome, Alaska and Dawson, Yukon Territory.

In 1887, he and his son Ben claimed a 160-acre ( 650, 000 m < sup > 2 </ sup >) homestead at the mouth of the Skagway River in Alaska.

By June 1898, with a population between 8, 000 and 10, 000, Skagway was the largest city in Alaska.

In 1900, Skagway was incorporated as the first city in the Alaska Territory.

In July 1923 President Warren G. Harding on his historic tour through Alaska visited Skagway.

Skagway was one of the few towns in Alaska ( along with Petersburg and Seward ) to endorse the 1939 Slattery Report on Alaskan development through immigration, especially of Jews from Germany and Austria.

This also makes Skagway an important port-of-call for the Alaska Marine Highway — Alaska's ferry system — and serves as the northern terminus of the important and heavily-used Lynn Canal corridor.

The Skagway Airport receives service from two bush carriers: Wings of Alaska, and Air Excursions.

In the Three Stooges short In the Sweet Pie and Pie, Skagway receives a humorous mention: " Edam Neckties, with three convenient locations: Skagway, Alaska ; Little America ; and Pago Pago.

Also according to this mythology, when angry, Kanagu would send strong channeled winds through the Taiya Inlet, from the Skagway River to the area around Haines, Alaska.

* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Eric A. Hegg Photographs 736 photographs from 1897-1901 documenting the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes, including depictions of frontier life in Skagway and Nome, Alaska and Dawson, Yukon Territory.

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Harding and his presidential party first visited Metlakatla, and Ketchikan ( July 8 ), Wrangell ( July 9 ), President Harding continued on to Juneau ( July 10 ), Skagway and Glacier Bay ( July 11 ).

For instance, the residents of Camp Skagway Number One included: William Howard Taft, who went on to become a U. S. President ; Frederick Russell Burnham, the celebrated American scout who arrived from Africa only to be called back to take part in the Second Boer War ; and W. W. White, author and explorer.

After Yakutat was incorporated as a unified city-borough on September 22, 1992, it was renamed Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area ; When Skagway followed suit on June 20, 2007, the census area assumed its current name.

Between 1897-1898, Skagway was a lawless town, described by one member of the North-West Mounted Police as " little better than a hell on earth.

Others disembarked at nearby Dyea, northwest of Skagway, and crossed northward on the Chilkoot Pass, an existing Tlingit trade route to reach the lakes.

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Smith was killed in Skagway at the Shootout on Juneau Wharf.

He was on duty at Camp Skagway and commanded and was in charge of preliminary work at Fort Seward in Alaska.

In the next two weeks the Elder stopped at several spots on Alaskan soil, including Skagway and Sitka.

Skagway, because of its deepwater harbor, served as the principal port for both routes ( nearby Dyea, the beginning of the Chilkoot Trail, was built on the extensive, shallow Taiya River delta ).

The narrow-gauge White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad connects Bennett, British Columbia at the south end of the lake with Skagway further south and Whitehorse, Yukon on the north.

In 1898 Smith was killed at the famed Shootout on Juneau Wharf and his gang were run out of Skagway and the White Pass.

It is located at the convergence of the Taiya River and Taiya Inlet on the south side of the Chilkoot Pass within the limits of the Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska.

It lies on the Klondike Highway between Whitehorse and Skagway, Alaska and offers a variety of historic attractions and outdoor activities.