This month’s cover features an 1898 image of the Chilkoot Pass, located in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains in Alaska and British Columbia.  It is the highest point along the Chilkoot Trail that leads from Dyea, Alaska, to Bennett Lake, British Columbia. The trail was long a route used by the Tlingit for trade. During the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 19th century, it was used by prospectors and packers to get through the mountains.

The image is part of the Phil Lind Klondike Goldrush Collection at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Library. The collection was donated to the UBC Library by Phil Lind in 2020 along with a generous financial gift and includes more than 1,800 photographs, hundreds of postcards, as well as textual records, artefacts, and maps of the Klondike Gold Rush era. Learn more at https://rbscarchives.library.ubc.ca/phil-lind-klondike-gold-rush-collection.