Here’s a REAL Alaska Gold Rush saloon!  It’s from the Koyukuk, one of the real-life disasters of the Gold Rush. A syndicate chartered five steamboats and packed them with building material. The steamboats plowed up the Yukon River and then the Koyukuk River where they built, from scratch, five small cities. It was a great idea except for one flaw: the stampeders expected to live off the land. It didn’t work. Alaska does not have the wild game population other states have. As I stated in my novel Noah, “By the middle of December, before winter had officially started, the Syndicate knew it was in very deep trouble.  It was simply a matter of adding up how much food they had in all five cities, dividing it by the number of people who had to be fed and the answer was March, at least two months before the river broke.” Then there was a mad stampede, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, to get OUT of Koyukuk and find food before the men starved to death. Fortunately for history buffs, one man had a camera and recorded the life – and death – of Koyukuk.  This is his photograph of a real Alaska Gold Rush saloon – complete with centerfolds, the pornography of the day.    [See my books at https://authormasterminds.com/steve-levi.]