Skookum jim mason wikipedia
Skookum jim mason wikipedia biography
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KEISH (Skookum Jim, James Mason), Tagish; b. c. 1855 in the vicinity of what is now Bennett Lake, Y.T./B.C., son of Kaachgaawáa, the head of the Tlingit crow clan, and Gus’dutéen, of the Tagish wolf clan; m.
in the customary way Daakuxda.éit, a Tlingit woman, and in 1895 they had a daughter; d. 11 July 1916 in Carcross, Y.T.
Keish’s family origins lay in the trading alliance between coastal Tlingit and inland Tagish.
Skookum jim mason wikipedia
His parents made their home close to the present site of Carcross. In the mid 1880s he worked during the summers on the Alaska coast as a packer, earning wages by carrying miners’ supplies over the passes to the headwaters of the Yukon River system.
While thus engaged, he earned the title Skookum Jim for his legendary physical strength, skookum being the word for strong in the Chinook Jargon.
At this time also he met George Washington Carmack, an American trader and prospector who was working as a packer at Dyea.
Skookum Jim and his neph