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Tagish Lake
Tagish Lake with Bove Island is part of the beautiful scenery on the trip from Whitehorse to Skagway,about 100 miles. The road runs along deep valleys and narrow lakes that are said to be rich in gold and silver and has been the site of mining activity since the turn of the century.
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Back in Alaska
At about 75 miles down the highway we crossed back into Alaska on the way to Skagway.
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Liarsville, Alaska
Liarsville is just outside of Skagway. It served as a staging area for the Klondike gold rush and was named for the many newspapers reporters whose reports were based on miners' tall tales on how easy it was to find gold. For example, they reported it took 12 days to reach the gold fields although it took 6 months.
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Liarsville Tent City
Today, there is a replica of Liarsville, complete with a tent city and, of course, gift shops. We had a lunch there complete with wild salmon cooked over an open fire. They also have music and entertainers that dress in character.
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Press Tent
The site included replicas of many of the tents that made up the city of Liarsville. The press tent is, appropriately, at the entrance of Liarsville. Seems it was too much effort for reporters to actually make the journey to the goldfields and endure the hardships to report first hand, so they waited for miners to return and retold their stories.
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Panning for Gold
Although gold was never found in Skagway, at Liarville you can pan for gold. We found a little gold dust in our pans. The waterfall doesn't really have much to do with the panning for gold, but it was very pretty.
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Lady of the Afternoon
What tent city would be complete without a lady of the afternoon?
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