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Skye, Olaf
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Olaf Skye and five men left Scandinavia, Wisconsin February 7, 1898, to participate in the Klondike Gold Rush. The group acquired their supplies in Seattle, travelled up the coast by boat, climbed the Chilkoot Trail and travelled down the Yukon River. Mr. Skye sank a mining shaft on Upper Selwyn Creek, about 35 miles below Fort Selkirk. After a winter spent cutting wood and trapping and suffering from the effects of scurvy he left in the fall of 1900. He caught a sternwheeler to Whitehorse and then travelled by a White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR) train to Skagway, Alaska. Olaf Skye married Mathilda Thorson in November 1900.
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