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Mount Yeatman is a 5,670-foot peak in Alaska’s Boundary Ranges near Skagway, rising sharply above the Taiya Valley beside the historic Chilkoot Trail and Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. Its runoff feeds tributaries of the Taiya River, and its subarctic setting brings heavy rain, snow, severe winter cold, and sustains the Irene Glacier on its northwest slope. The mountain was named during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898 for Captain Richard T. Yeatman, whose Company B of the U.S. Army’s 14th Infantry was stationed at nearby Dyea as troops were sent to help maintain order amid frontier tensions.
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Skagway, Alaska · United States
