Kate Spenser

Kate Spenser was a young widow when she and her son came over the Chilkoot Pass in 1895 from Juneau. She was on her way to Circle, Alaska and travelled with three or four men. Two of them may have been the Ashby boys. Some enterprising man rigged the first cable over the last hump of the summit that year. Jack Devine would like to think that Kate climbed and did not ride. Kate married Harry Spenser at Circle and after he died, she married a big rosy cheeked man from the creeks. Hughie Day’s wife came over at the same time.¹⁾