Pack Animal Memorial - Skagway, AK
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neoc1
N 59° 27.180 W 135° 19.162
8V E 481893 N 6590539
A memorial to great number of pack animals that died in service to miners hiking to the gold fields of the Klondike is located in the plaza near the White Pass and Yukon Railway Station in Skagway, AK.
Waymark Code: WMZ8PZ
Location: Alaska, United States
Date Posted: 09/30/2018
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A well worn bronze plaque, set on a concrete base, honors the approximately 3,000 pack animals that died on the Chilkoot and White Pass Trails. The plaque has the image of two fully packed horses walking in single file and is inscribed:
THE DEAD ARE SPEAKING
IN MEMORY OF US THREE THOUSAND PACK
ANIMALS THAT LAID OUR BONES ON THESE
AWFUL HILLS DURING THE GOLD RUSH
OF 1897 - 1898 WE NOW THANK THOSE
LISTENING SOULS THAT HEARD OUR
GROANS ACROSS THIS STRETCH OF YEARS
WE WAITED BUT NOT IN VAIN
BY THE LADIES OF THE GOLDEN
NORTH AND THE ALASKA YUKON PIONEERS
1929 INCEPTION OF MEMORIAL BY FLORENCE HARTSHORN