When it comes to the Alaska Gold Rush, cats don’t get a lot of credit. But they deserved it!  They were as highly prized – and as valuable – as sled dogs!  Why? Because food coming in on the once-a-year barge was in burlap sacks. If you bought a winter’s supply of beans, they came in 50-pound sacks which sat on the floor of your cabin for the e-i-g-h-t months of snow cover. Every day of those e-i-g-h-t months there were mice and shrew nibbling away at your food supply.  So, if you were lucky, you had a cat.  That way you would have food until spring. 

THE HUMAN FACE OF THE ALASKA GOLD RUSH

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