Seattlest: Alaska, Prepare For The Gays

Seth

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:40:15 -0800

And women! My great-grandmother went there--part of her diary is online: "We got up at five this morning....There are hundreds of people here dragging or carrying their supplies, all striving to reach the Klondike. Some have horses and still others have dog teams, but most of them act as their own horses. I have baked bread and biscuits and cake, and today yellow peas were the only thing I had. —Inga Kolloen's diary, March 21, 1898, on the Dyea Trail

Dan

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:13:53 -0800

Good call - Boatloads of men heading from Seattle to Alaska is nothing new.

WebWrangler

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:09:56 -0800

With all those men in town at one time, it will be almost like the gold rush all over again for Ketchikan, eh? Come to think of it, maybe that's where Nordstrom learned to be stylish, selling all those shoes to the hopeful miners.