At the end of the 19th century, around 100,000 people joined the Klondike gold rush, seeking their fortune inside the Yukon territory in Canada and Canada. Many gold researchers who have chosen the arduous path inside the land of Valdez de l'Alaska have also discovered rich copper deposits along the way. The American army quickly started working on the Valdez Trailwhich would become the main route between the mining fields and Valdez. Several competing companies rushed to build a railway along the route. In 1902, one of these groups sent a team of photographers, the Miles brothersTo document the city, the growing path, the landscape, its newly arrived residents and the Alaska natives. Impressions of these photographs were collected in an album that I was able to digitize recently in the American national archives, giving us a remarkable overview of daily life along a rough path in the interior of Alaska, almost 125 years ago.
