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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast Alaska at the head of the Lynn Canal northwest of Juneau. It was a boomtown and the gateway to the Klondike during the gold rush of 1897–1898.
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- proper noun A city in
Alaska ,United States
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- noun a town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage; a gateway to the Klondike during the Alaskan gold rush
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Examples
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110 Years ago, on July 8, 1898, con man and onetime Denver crime boss Jefferson Randall “Soapy” Smith was killed by vigilantes (sort of) in Skagway, Alaska.
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110 Years ago, on July 8, 1898, con man and onetime Denver crime boss Jefferson Randall “Soapy” Smith was killed by vigilantes (sort of) in Skagway, Alaska.
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Hubbard and Sawyer Glaciers, cruise the Inside Passage, and visit historic Alaskan ports such as Skagway, Juneau, Sitka and Ketchikan.
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ship arrived in Skagway which is a typical touristy town.
Photographica NatureBug 2010
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On the last trip north, as I sat beside a campfire and watched a rising full moon paint a path of glittering gold across the waters of Kluane Lake, I was reminded that the spirit of the Klondike Gold Rush still lingers in that part of the country, which includes Dawson City, Whitehorse, and Skagway.
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Becky Krystal: I don't think I can give you everything you want, but when my parents did this, they really enjoyed Ketchikan and Skagway.
Talk about Travel 2011
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Whitehorse General Hospital, where my own daughter was born three years ago, remains, to this day, the closest major hospital to Skagway.
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He then brings them together for a climactic 1898 confrontation in Skagway Harbor—a confrontation that, alas, may have never happened.
Prospecting for Gold-Rush Tales Mark Lewis 2011
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Palin drew from her Skagway past to illustrate her point.
Think Progress » Palin Admits To Travelling To Canada For Health Care 2010
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Palin was a child in the mid-1960s when her family lived in Skagway, a southeast Alaska town near the Canadian border.
Think Progress » Palin Admits To Travelling To Canada For Health Care 2010
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