Why did they build the Klondike Highway to Whitehorse, Y.T.? Skagway was already connected by railroad. They had an airport. They had ferry connections to Haines and points south. The skeptics said it would be prohibitively expensive, an engineering challenge, and dangerous for winter travel. But was it a boondoggle? Would it hurt Skagway’s economy? Would the drive over White Pass really be dangerous? Was not the ferry safer? Or was it all political? And…