The Life Line: Waterways of the vast Yukon and Tanana River systems were the highways of the gold rush. Sternwheelers, running into the gold country after break-up, carried in fresh food, machinery, supplies-and new gold-seekers...carried out gold and weary miners. Here is Fairbanks waterfront in the early days. "...The Bishop. Picnic party at Dawson" *"'Soapy' Had Skagway 'Sewed-Up'"...Fairbanksan Bobby Sheldon recalls shooting of Gangland Prototype. Soapy Smith's Grave. *"Parents Say Son's Corpse Was 'Robbed'" "Bear with us for Tale of Prospector and His Pet" *"Wingate was Rampart Editor" An Alaskan Family. *"Dyea Produced Nothing, so it Became Ghost Town" "Auspicious Occasions..In 1923 President Harding visited Alaska to drive the golden spike on the Alaska Railroad" *"Pioneer Banker Return to His Former Profession" "'Wrong Font' Thompson Has Things to Say" *"Klondike Kate's Grave is Discovered...Girl who may actually have seen nugget lies in neglected sleep" *"International Boundary is no Barrier Between Alaska and Neighbor" *"Miner Stewart Left Heritage" Mining Camp. *"Police Raiders Close 3 Dawson Card Rooms" *"Barnette's Cache" "Koyukuk Trader" "The Man Who Started It All" *"Great American Game" *"Western Union Came to Alaska Territory First" *"Wingate Published Weekly at Rampart" Once was Lusty Mining Camp. *"Old log church" "Independence Day, 1908" "The Thomas Block" On the Trail" "First Furniture Factory" *"Alaskans Answered the Call to Arms" "Army Inductees on Way to Fort Gibbon" "First Flight to Anchorage Made by Wien" *"Men Don Uniforms for Army Service" "Mining Camps Inhabited by Gentlemen"