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Alaskan Riverboats

November 16th, 2009

alaskariverboat2When the city of Fairbanks swelled with the Klondike gold rush in the late 1800s, a fleet of riverboats began to sail the river waters hauling supplies. When the riverboats came, something else began to change…

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