> Devised for Audrey Prest and Angela Tennyson. In July 2000, Audrey,
> Angela and I joined fellow dancers on a Scottish Country Dance cruise to Alaska. While docked in
> Skagway, the three of us took a ride on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad. The train route traces the 33-
> mile trail through the mountains hiked by more than 100,000 prospectors during the Klondike gold rush,
> 1896-1899. In the spring of 1898, a piper named Donald MacLeod led a group of his fellow countrymen
> up the Chilkoot Trail in search of their fortunes.