Keywords: Two Klondikers with dogs packing supplies along the Chilkoot Trail near Dyea, Alaska, 1897 (LAROCHE 111).jpeg check categories 8 June 2016 7 Photograph Creator Frank La Roche Caption on image Dogs packing on Dyea Trail c1897 Klondike Gold Rush Dogs are most valuable in winter as they are then attached to sleds and will draw 100 pounds twenty miles or more a day five or six being usually harnessed to each sled Dog teams were found of great service by the many parties who came out from Dawson during the past winter and but for them many would not have been able to make the trip The native dogs of the interior are the most valuable and have sold as high as 200 each in Dawson Car loads of mongrel curs have been shipped into Seattle and other points of departure for Alaska and then trained to work in teams making both day and night hideous with their howlings Frank La Roche En Route to the Klondike 1898 Subjects LCTGM Pack animals--Alaska--Dyea; Tents--Alaska--Dyea; Dogs--Alaska--Dyea; Travois--Alaska--Dyea Subjects LCSH Chilkoot Trail; Trails--Alaska depicted place Dyea Alaska 1897 Institution University of Washington UWASH-LAROCHE-source accession number laroche 111 PD-old-auto-1923 1936 Information field Order Number LAR204 Images from the Frank La Roche Photographs Collection to check Pack animals Tents Dogs of Alaska Travois Chilkoot Trail Trails Dyea Alaska |