To The Yukon and Beyond Along the Gold Rush Trail

SHARING THE EXPERIENCE AND THE HISTORY

At twenty-one, a young man still in college, Dan Holder had an opportunity for adventure when his older stepbrother Kyn asked him to join an expedition. Along with Kyn's wife Ella and Kyn's sister Nance, they traveled in a small boat over 1,200 miles down the Yukon River through Canada's Yukon Territory and into Alaska. That was in 1966, well after the gold rush of 1898 when the river had been heavily traveled by gold seekers aboard small rafts, hand-sa...