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Gold Rush Cemetery

Skagway, AK

This forest-edge cemetery contains the graves of figures tied to Skagway's violent Gold Rush years, including con man Jefferson 'Soapy' Smith and surveyor Frank Reid. The cemetery is public but should be treated respectfully and not as a staged haunted attraction.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/klgo/learn/historyculture/cemeteries.htm

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