About
250 wooden steamboats operated
in the Yukon River drainage at
the height of the Klondike era.
The sternwheelers became gold rush
icons. But the hardy, pragmatic
riverboat men were lured by profits,
not romance.
It was a tough, risky business. The season was short. A navigation error could
sink or strand an enormous investment. The steamboats consumed huge amounts of
firewood. And if a riverboat didn't find a safe berth or dry dock before freeze
up, it risked being crushed by ice the following spring.
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