Bill Henry (~1868 - ~1973)
	
Bill was born in Scotland. He immigrated to Canada and was seventeen in 1885 when he arrived at Highwood Crossing (High River) on the MacLeod Trail. He worked with the Spalding Brothers and Tom Lynch and gained cattleman skills. He built up his own herd, traded that for the High River Hotel but still spent most of his time on the range. Calgary’s Pat Burns was one of the first to see opportunity in the Klondike. He sent cattle north with Billy Perdue in the winter of 1897-98, and even before Perdue was back, he asked Bill Henry to take an even bigger herd north. Henry had experienced cattlemen Duncan Fraser and Bill Summerton helping him and he hired six more men in Vancouver. They loaded twenty-two horses and 180 steers, mostly four and five-year-olds, on a CPR scow and //The Mystery// towed it Pyramid Harbour. The party was one of the first over the Dalton Trail in 1898 and they paid Jack Dalton’s toll.((Grant MacEwan, //Blazing the Old Cattle Trail.// Calgary: Fifth House Publishers, 2000: 169-174.)) Dalton, backed by a crew of armed men at the toll booth, charged $2.50 for each cow, horse and burro; fifty cents for goats, sheep, and hogs; five dollars for two horses and a team; and ten dollars for four horses and a team.((Michael Gates,//Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail.// Whitehorse, Lost Moose, 2012: 149, 206.))

Henry’s party reached the Yukon River and set up corrals just below Five Finger Rapids where they butchered the cattle. They used six-by-six timbers from Charlie Thebo’s sawmill, and Henry went to Dawson and brought back four lumbermen to build the scows. They butchered the cattle, loaded the meat on the scows, and floated downriver to Dawson.((Michael Gates,//Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail.// Whitehorse, Lost Moose, 2012: 149, 206.)) 

They arrived in Dawson near the end of October and meat was scarce, so they got a good price. The Mounted Police took 75,000 pounds of meat at seventy-five cents a pound and the balance sold for a dollar a pound. The horse meat sold as dog food at fifty cents a pound. Henry was paid in gold dust which he took to the bank so he could wire the money to Burns.((Grant MacEwan, //Blazing the Old Cattle Trail.// Calgary: Fifth House Publishers, 2000: 169-174.)) Henry made a base wage of one hundred dollars a month and 12.5 percent of the profits.((Michael Gates, //Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail.// Whitehorse, Lost Moose, 2012: 211.)) 

Bill Henry was back in Calgary at the beginning of February to find that Burns had a shipment of heavy oxen ready to go to Atlin. The party, including Dominic Burns, had to take sleighs and feed for the animals. They landed at Skagway and freighted everything over the White Pass. They had a trail to Log Cabin but had to break trail to Atlin where Dominic opened a butcher shop.((Grant MacEwan, //Blazing the Old Cattle Trail.// Calgary: Fifth House Publishers, 2000: 169-174.)) Henry headed north to Atlin again with herds and supplies, but never went back to the Yukon.((Michael Gates, //Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail.// Whitehorse, Lost Moose, 2012: 261.))