Two young Alaskan ladies, Crystal Brilliant Snow and Dazie Stromstadt of Juneau, arrived on the steamer White Horse about 1908 to embark on a singing tour of the Klondike. For Snow, who published an account of their trip in the 1909 Juneau High School Totem, it was a return to home territory - her family had lived at Fortymile more than a decade earlier.
In Dawson the singers stayed with an old American friend, whom "we located by the many little American flags, which peeped cosily from the beautiful vines which surrounded the porch." Snow commented on Dawson's $40,000 Presbyterian church with a $10,000 pipe organ.
