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Dyea, Alaska

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714: 53: 272:(1840-1908) and Edgar Wilson (1842-1895) opened their trading post there. Previously, only a small hunting and fishing cabin had existed at the location. Before 1886, Dyea or Dei-yi (phonetic spelling) had been the second half of the name Jilḵoot Dei-yi . Prior publications state that Dyea was derived from the words for “to pack” or “carrying place” . However, the presence of the initial \d\ sound in Dyea casts doubt on those latter possibilities and suggests that the first syllable was in fact dei (as in dei-yi). 69: 298: 322: 289:. All that remains are a number of foundations surrounded by scraps of lumber and metal, three cemeteries, including one where almost every person buried died on the same date in 1898 in an avalanche on the gold rush trail, and the ruins of the wharf. Visitors can usually spot brown bears, black bears, and eagles. Brown bears tend to use the Dyea inlets to feed during salmon spawning season (July–August). 76: 310: 776: 466:“The trail … is known among the Indians as the Chilkoot trail...It was monopolized solely by the Chilkoots, who had even gone so far as to forbid the Chilkats, almost brothers in blood, from using it” 476:, at page 60. It is, however, unlikely that the Indians used the English word for trail! Because the Chilkoot Indians claimed ownership of the trail, it would have been called Chilkoot Dei-yi . 435:, S. Doc. No. 162, 58th Cong. (2nd Sess. 1903), Vol. IV, App. 2, at page 233, reprinted, Serial 4602. Before 1886, only a small hunting and fishing cabin had existed at this location. 786: 671: 52: 286: 801: 681: 208: 806: 796: 664: 528: 446: 412: 195:. A few people live on individual small homesteads in the valley; however, it is largely abandoned. It is located at the convergence of the 649: 427:“May 1886 I established a trading-post at a place now called Dyea, … with Edgar Wilson, … who resided at Dyea up to … his death in 1895.” 100: 629: 553: 428: 386:
Dyea appeared one time on the U.S. Census in 1900 as an unincorporated village. It has since been annexed into the city of Skagway.
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Taiya River estuary and site of Dyea at the beginning of the Chilkoot Trail (October 2005).
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This one wall and section of fence is all that remains of the buildings of old Dyea today.
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Use of the name Dyea for its present location first occurred in 1886, when
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Dyea Townsite (Ruins), Skagway, Municipality of Skagway Borough, AK
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Haa Léelk'w Hás Aaní Saax'ú:Our Grandparents' Names on the Land
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To the Chukchi Peninsula and to the Tlingit Indians 1881/1882
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Geography of the Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska
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The graveyard containing victims of the 1898 avalanche.
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Dyea page at Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park
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Alias Soapy Smith: The Life and Death of a Scoundrel
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The port at Dyea had shallow water, and neighboring
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Dyea
Ghost town
The Dyea waterfront during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Dyea is located in Alaska
59°30′16″N 135°21′36″W / 59.50444°N 135.36000°W / 59.50444; -135.36000
State
Alaska
/dˈ/
dye-EE
U.S. state
Alaska
Taiya River
Taiya Inlet
Chilkoot Pass
Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska
Klondike Gold Rush
Chilkoot Trail
Tlingit
Coast Mountains
Dawson City
Yukon
Soapy Smith
Skagway
Skagway
White Pass and Yukon Route
White Pass Trail
Chilkoot Trail
John J. Healy
Chilkoot Trail and Dyea Site
National Historic Landmark

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