On April 3rd

Ford killed James here April 3, 1882; the bullet hole is documented. The house's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer of the site's file. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Jesse James Home'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

The Slide Cemetery holds victims of the April 1898 Palm Sunday avalanche that killed ~70 stampeders. The record dates it to 1898-04-03. A ghost town's file is unusual: the emptiness itself is documented, and this entry is part of that record. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Klondike Gold Rush NHP' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented

On April 3, 1898 — Palm Sunday — an avalanche thundered down the Chilkoot Trail between Sheep Camp and the Scales, burying stampeders in snow up to thirty feet deep; roughly 70 died, the Klondike's worst single tragedy. They lie in Dyea's Slide Cemetery beneath wooden markers, and the trail itself is now part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.