Primary Name: Coutts, Robert
Filed as: coutts_robert
Also known as: Robert Coutts
Occupation / Association: Historian
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Associated places: Canada; Yukon; Klondike
Keywords: Robert Coutts historian, Coutts Robert, Dalton Trail historian, Yukon Klondike historians
Biography
Robert Coutts is a Canadian historian who has written about the development of transportation routes during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Coutts summarized the operations of Jack Dalton and the Dalton Trail into the Yukon during the gold rush:
"The only man to control a major transportation route into the Yukon and Klondike, Dalton ran pack trains and delivered livestock to the miners. He allowed others to use his trail for a toll and backed his authority with his reputation and a gun. One group that refused to pay was accompanied for the whole journey by Jack Dalton, who kept them well away from his route . . . They lost most of their stock. No one else tried to travel without paying."
Sources
Historical writings of Robert Coutts on the Dalton Trail and Klondike transportation routes
Tags: Robert Coutts, Coutts Robert, historians of the Klondike, Yukon history, Dalton Trail history