White Pass & Yukon Route: GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! Mod

White Pass & Yukon Route: GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! Mod

The story
Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper front page for July 17, 1897:
GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! Sixty-eight rich men on the steamer Portland. Stacks of yellow metal! Some have $5,000. Many have more, and a few bring out $100,000 each. The steamer carries $700,000.
The news spread like wildfire and the country, in the midst of a depression, went gold crazy. Tens of thousands of men and women steamed up the Inside Passage waterway and arrived in Skaguay to begin the overland trek to the Klondike. The 19th century was the era of railroad building and an easier mode of transportation into the north was of interest to everyone. Two men appeared on the scene with essentially the same idea: build a railroad through the White Pass to transport all those gold crazed prospectors. One of them said: “Give me enough dynamite and snoose” he bragged, “and I’ll build a railroad to Hell.”
Ironically, when the railroad opened, the gold rush to the Klondike stopped, and thus its reason for existence!
The map
This is a medium sized 1:3 map.
The sparsely populated area includes 5 small towns: one by the ocean and four in the mountains alongside the Yukon river.
It includes several supply chains, like prospectors that also carry food and tools, but also silver and copper ore, gold, mail and logs.
It plays in 1898.
The map was hand painted and all cities and industries were placed carefully and manually. A mod was specially made for this map to give it a nice Alaskan/Canadian vibe. Hope you enjoy it!