Yukon who is who

Billy “Skookum” McAdam

Skookum McAdam was one of the famous stage drivers on the Yukon Overland Trail between Whitehorse and Dawson.¹⁾ Bill McAdam died in the Yukonia fire in Dawson around 1916.²⁾

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W. D. MacBride, “Yukon Stage Line.” Dawson City Museum vertical files.

²⁾

Bert Parker edited by Lulu M. Fairbanks, “I’ve Been Thinkin’” Alaska Weekly (Seattle), July 3, 1936.