An 1896 gold strike along the namesake river in northwestern Canada brought a flood of characters who survive in the written works of Jack London and others.
In March of 1898, Colonel Thomas M Anderson and a battalion of the 14th U.S. Infantry established Camp Dyea approximately six miles north of the newly built boomtown of Dyea.
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