Question 1: This also makes Skagway an important port-of-call for the ________ — Alaska's ferry system — and serves as the northern terminus of the important and heavily-used Lynn Canal corridor.
Question 2: Skagway (originally spelled Skaguay) is from the ________ name for the area, "Skagua" or "Shgagwèi" meaning "a windy place with 'white caps on the water."[2][3]
Question 3: The ________narrow gauge railroad, part of the area's mining past, is now in operation purely for the tourist trade and runs throughout the summer months.
Question 4: Skagway was one of the few towns in Alaska (along with Petersburg and Seward) to endorse the 1939 Slattery Report on Alaskan development through immigration, especially of Jews from Germany and ________.
Question 7: He believed that gold lay in the Klondike because it had been found in similar mountain ranges in South America, Mexico, California, and ________.
Question 8: As a member of an 1887 boundary survey expedition, he had made the first recorded investigation of the pass over the ________, which later became known as White Pass.
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