Routes to the Klondike.

The Klondike Gold Rush, infrequently referred to as the Yukon Gold Rush, was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and for gold prospecting, along the Klondike River near Dawson City, Yukon, after gold was discovered there in the late 19th century. In total, about 12.5 million ounces of gold have been taken from the Klondike area in the century since its discovery.^[1] Image File history File links Klondike_Routes_Map. ... Image File history File links Klondike_Routes_Map. ... For other meanings, see Gold rush (disambiguation) A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold. ... Gold pan Gold prospecting is the act of going equipped to find gold in rocks or in stream beds with a view to exploiting that discovery. ... Klondike River crossing Dempster Highway (upstream) The Klondike River is a tributary of the Yukon River in Canada and gave its name to the Klondike Gold Rush. ... The Town of the City of Dawson or Dawson City is a town in the Yukon Territory, Canada. ... This article is about the Canadian territory. ... GOLD refers to one of the following: GOLD (IEEE) is an IEEE program designed to garner more student members at the university level (Graduates of the Last Decade). ... Hunker Creek Valley, Klondike The Klondike or Clondike is a region of the Yukon Territory in northwest Canada, east of the Alaska border. ...

Discovery

Keish (Skookum Jim Mason)

In August 1896, three people led by Skookum Jim Mason (a member of the Tagish First Nations whose birth name was Keish) headed north, down the Yukon River from the Carcross area, looking for his sister Kate and her husband George Carmack. The party included Skookum Jim, Skookum Jim's cousin known as Dawson Charlie (or sometimes Tagish Charlie) and his nephew Patsy Henderson. After meeting up with George and Kate, who were fishing for salmon at the mouth of the Klondike River, they ran into Nova Scotian Robert Henderson who had been mining gold on the Indian River, just south of the Klondike. Henderson told George Carmack about where he was mining and that he did not want any "Siwashes" (meaning Indians) near him. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Keish (Skookum Jim Mason) Keish (c. ... The Tagish are a group of about 400 Gwichin people that live around Tagish Lake, in the Yukon Territory of Canada. ... First Nations is a term of ethnicity that refers to the indigenous peoples in what is now Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis people. ... The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. ... Carcross Golden Spike Monument at Carcross, Yukon Carcross, originally known as Caribou Crossing, is an unincorporated community and a Reserve in the Territory of Yukon, Canada on Lake Bennett and Nares Lake. ... Kate Carmack, or Shaaw Tláa (c. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Dawson Charlie or Káa goox, (? – 26 December 1908) was a Tagish/Tlingit First Nation person and one of the co-discoverers of gold that led to the Klondike Gold Rush. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 11 Senate seats 10 Confederation July 1, 1867...

On August 21, 1896, the Skookum party discovered rich placer gold deposits in Bonanza (Rabbit) Creek which is located in the Yukon, northwest Canada. It is not clear who made the actual discovery, but some accounts say that it was Kate Carmack, while others credit Skookum Jim. George Carmack was officially credited for the gold discovery because the actual claim was staked in his name. The group agreed to this because they felt that other miners would be reluctant to recognize a claim made by an Indian, given the strong racist attitudes of the time. is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... Miners operate a hydraulic sluice in San Francisquito Canyon, Los Angeles County. ...

Stampede begins

Miners wait to register their claims.

The news spread to other mining camps in the Yukon River valley. Gold was first discovered in Rabbit Creek which was later named Bonanza Creek because so many people came to the creek for gold. The Bonanza, Eldorado, and Hunker Creeks were rapidly staked by miners who had been previously working creeks and sandbars on the Fortymile and Stewart Rivers. Robert Henderson, who was mining a couple of miles away over the hill, learned about the discovery only after all the rich creeks had been staked. Image File history File links Miners wait to register their claims during the Klondike Gold Rush. ... Image File history File links Miners wait to register their claims during the Klondike Gold Rush. ... For other uses, see Shoal (disambiguation). ... The Fortymile River is a river in Alaska and the Yukon. ...

News reached the United States in July 1897, when the first successful prospectors arrived in San Francisco, California on July 15 and in Seattle, Washington on July 17, setting off the Klondike stampede. In 1898, the population in the Klondike may have reached 40,000, which threatened to cause a famine. San Francisco redirects here. ... is the 196th day of the year (197th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Seattle redirects here. ... is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... <nowiki>Insert non-formatted text hereBold text</nowiki>A famine is a social and economic crisis that is commonly accompanied by widespread malnutrition, starvation, epidemic and increased mortality. ...

A typical gold mining operation, on Bonanza Creek.

Most prospectors landed at Skagway, Alaska, or the adjacent town of Dyea, Alaska, both located at the head of the Lynn Canal. From these towns they traveled the Chilkoot Trail and crossed the Chilkoot Pass, or they hiked up to the White Pass into the Yukon and proceeded thence to Lake Lindeman or Lake Bennett, the headwaters of the Yukon River. Here, some 25 to 35 grueling miles (40 - 56 km) from where they landed, prospectors built rafts and boats that would take them the final 500-plus miles (800-plus km) down the Yukon to Dawson City, near the gold fields. Stampeders had to carry a year's supply of goods — about a ton, more than half of it food — over the passes to be allowed to enter Canada. At the top of the passes, the stampeders encountered Canada's North West Mounted Police (NWMP and now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) post that enforced that regulation. It was put in place to avert shortages like those that had occurred in the previous two winters in Dawson City. Image File history File links A mining operation during the Klondike Gold Rush, from the Canadian National Archives [1] File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links A mining operation during the Klondike Gold Rush, from the Canadian National Archives [1] File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Prospecting is the physical search for minerals, fossils, precious metals or mineral specimens, and is also known as fossicking. ... Broadway Avenue, Skagway, May 2007. ... Taiya River estuary and site of Dyea at the beginning of the Chilkoot Trail (October 2005) Dyea is a mostly-abandoned town in the U.S. state of Alaska. ... Lynn Canal, Haines area of southeast Alaska The Lynn Canal is an inlet (not an artificial canal) into the mainland of southeast Alaska. ... The Chilkoot Trail is a trail in the Chilkoot mountains in Alaska that leads from Dyea, Alaska, United States to Bennett, British Columbia, Canada through the Chilkoot Pass in the Coast Mountains. ... Chilkoot Pass (el. ... The White Pass is a mountain pass through the Coast Mountains in Alaska and British Columbia that leads from Skagway, Alaska, United States to the town of Bennett, British Columbia, Canada on Lake Bennett. ... Lake Bennett is a lake that sits partly in the Province of British Columbia and partly in the Yukon Territory, both located in northwest Canada. ... “km” redirects here. ... RCMP redirects here. ...

Once the bulk of the prospectors arrived at Dawson City, most of the major mining claims of the region were already established. However, any major potential unrest with the idle population was averted with the firm authority of the NWMP under the command of Sam Steele. Sir Samuel Benfield Steele, in his uniform as commanding officer, Lord Strathconas Horse. ...

Cultural legacy

Amongst the many to take part in the gold rush was writer Jack London, whose books White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and To Build a Fire, a collection of short stories, were influenced by his northern experiences, and adventurer "Swiftwater" Bill Gates. Part I of Jack London's 1910 novel Burning Daylight is centered around the Klondike Gold Rush. Another literary luminary connected with the rush, and whose cabin still stands in Dawson City, was folk-lyricist Robert W. Service, whose short epics The Shooting of Dan McGrew and other works describe the fierce grandeur of the north and the survival ethic and gold fever of men and women in the frozen, gold-strewn north. Service's best-known line is the opening of The Cremation of Sam McGee, which goes; For other persons named Jack London, see Jack London (disambiguation). ... This article is about the novel. ... For other uses, see Call of the Wild (disambiguation) The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. ... To Build a Fire is a short story by American author Jack London. ... Swiftwater Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. ... Robert W. Service Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a poet and writer. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Cremation of Sam McGee The Cremation of Sam McGee is one of the most famous of Robert W. Services poems. ...

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
      By the men who moil for gold;

One of the most thorough popular histories of the Klondike Gold Rush, titled simply Klondike, was written by Canada's Pierre Berton, who was raised in the Yukon (In the United States, Berton's book is entitled The Klondike Fever.) Berton covers nearly every misadventure of the nightmarish and harrowing journeys taken by the many parties on different routes bound for Dawson City, and also covers in fair detail the goings-on in that town up until about 1904. His mother Laura also wrote a book recounting her own experiences entitled "I Married The Klondike". Pierre Francis Berton, CC, O.Ont, BA, D.Litt (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist. ...

One of the last books of Jules Verne, "Le Volcan d'Or" or "The Volcano of Gold" in English, deals with the terrible hardships endured by the gold-seekers in the Klondike. The book was written in 1899 but was unpublished until 1989. This article is about the French author. ...

Charlie Chaplin carving up a boot in The Gold Rush

Charlie Chaplin's silent film The Gold Rush (1925), the highest grossing silent comedy, was set in the Klondike, as was the silent epic The Trail of '98 (1928) and Mae West's Klondike Annie (1936). Life in Dawson City during the gold rush was also the subject of the award-winning 1957 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary City of Gold, narrated by Pierre Berton. James Stewart's 1955 movie The Far Country is a Western set in Skagway and Dawson City during the gold rush era. It was directed by Anthony Mann and written by Borden Chase. The 1978 TV special What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown! is also set during the Gold Rush but is disputed to be the 1925 serum run to Nome. Image File history File links TheGoldRush. ... Image File history File links TheGoldRush. ... Charles Chaplin redirects here. ... The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role. ... Charles Chaplin redirects here. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role. ... MAE-West is a major Internet peering point located in San Jose, California. ... Klondike Annie is a 1936 black-and-white comedy film starring Mae West and Victor McLaglen. ... The National Film Board of Canada (usually National Film Board or NFB) is a Canadian public filmmaking organization established to produce and distribute films that inform Canadians and promote Canada around the world. ... City of Gold is a 1957 Canadian documentary by Colin Low and Wolf Koenig, chronicling Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush. ... For other persons named James Stewart, see James Stewart (disambiguation). ... Bend of the River is a 1955 American western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their fifth and final collaboration. ... Anthony Mann (June 30, 1906 - April 29, 1967), was an American actor and film director. ... Allegedly getting his nominal inspiraton from Borden Milk and Chase-Manhattan Bank, Borden Chase (1900 - 1971), whose real name was Frank Fowler, went through an assortment of jobs including the building of New Yorks Holland Tunnel before turning, first to short stories and novels, and then to screenwriting with... TV redirects here. ... A television special is a television program, typically a short film or television movie, which interrupts or temporarily replaces programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. ... What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown! is one of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. ... During the 1925 serum run to Nome, also known as the Great Race of Mercy, 20 mushers and about 150 sled dogs relayed diphtheria antitoxin 674 miles (1,085 km) by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska in a record-breaking five and a half days, saving...

James A. Michener's novel Alaska (chapter VIII) describes the harsh realities of the Klondike Gold Rush using fictional characters. James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907? - October 16, 1997) was the American author of such books as Tales of the South Pacific (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948), Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas, and Poland. ... Alaska is a historical novel by James A. Michener. ...

Carl Barks' 1950s Scrooge McDuck comics established the character as a successful participant in the Klondike rush when he was a young man, around the turn of the century. Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952) and Magica De Spell (1961). ... Scrooge McDuck or Uncle Scrooge is a fictional Scottish Glaswegian[1] anthropomorphic duck created by Carl Barks that first appeared in Four Color Comics #178, Christmas on Bear Mountain, published by Dell Comics in December, 1947. ...

The gold rush was celebrated in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, with Klondike Days (now Edmonton's Capital EX), an annual summer fair with a Klondike gold rush theme. Though far away from Dawson City and the Klondike River, Edmonton became known as a "Gateway to the North" for gold prospectors. It was in the city that many would collect the necessary goods for trekking up north in search of wealth. Individuals and teams of explorers arrived in Edmonton and prepared for travel by foot, York boat, dog team, or horses. Travel to the Yukon over land via what was sometimes called the "all Canada" route--and the prospectors that took this route--were often referred to as "overlanders". While few overlanders made it to the Klondike (160 out of about 1,600 that started^[2]), Alberta's Northlands Association, which is based in Edmonton, honored the memory and spirit of the overlanders with Klondike Days. For many years, Klondike Days was a fun summer exhibition with themed events such as the Sunday Promenade, the Sourdough raft race, free pancake breakfasts, saloons, gold panning and era costume parties. Despite the many sad realities of the gold rush, Edmonton appreciated the Klondike spirit, which was characterized by a tenacious hope for success in the face of hardship, and an energetic zest for life. As a fair theme it was meant to provide the impetus for fun fantasy characters (e.g., Klondike Mike and Kate) and fun events celebrating an interesting time. The sentimental aspect of the gold rush lost its popular appeal in the 1980s and 90s and in 2005 the theme was dropped. This article is about the city in Alberta, Canada. ... For other uses, see Alberta (disambiguation). ... The logo for Edmontons Capital EX 2006 Edmontons Capital EX is an annual 10-day exhibition that is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ... The York boat was an inland boat used by the Hudsons Bay Company to carry furs and trade goods along inland waterways in Canada. ... Sled dogs, known also as sleigh dogs, sledge dogs or sleddogs are a group of dogs that are used to pull a wheel-less vehicle on runners (a sled or sleigh) over snow or ice, by means of harnesses and lines. ...

In addition, the gold rush proved to be one of most famous eras of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's history. Not only did the exemplary conduct of the force ensure its continuation at a time when its dissolution was being debated in the Parliament of Canada, but the Force's depiction in popular western culture is often set at this time. The most popular examples include dramatic depictions such as the radio series Challenge of the Yukon and comedic ones like Dudley Do-Right Regions Political culture Foreign relations Other countries Atlas  Politics Portal      The Senate Chamber of Parliament Hill in Ottawa. ... Challenge of the Yukon was a long-running radio series that began on Detroits station WXYZ (as had The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet). ... l-to-r: Snidely Whiplash, Dudley Do-Right, Nell Fenwick & Horse, in a scene from the opening title sequence of Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties Dudley Do-Right was the eponymous hero of a segment on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show which parodied early 20th century melodrama and silent...

See also

• Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
• Carcross/Tagish First Nation
• Gold mining in Alaska

Seattle visitors center The Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park that commemorates the Klondike Gold Rush. ... The Carcross/Tagish First Nation is a First Nation in the Yukon Territory in Canada. ...

References

1. ^ History of Mining in Yukon
2. ^ Chalmers Trail

Further reading

• Pierre Berton - Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899 Espn 0-385-65844-3 and other editions
• James A. Michener - Journey espn 0-394-57826-0 hoo

Pierre Francis Berton, CC, O.Ont, BA, D.Litt (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist. ... James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907? - October 16, 1997) was the American author of such books as Tales of the South Pacific (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948), Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas, and Poland. ...

External links

• Klondike: The Quest for Gold (documentary film)
• Victorian Order of Nurses Official Website
• Women of the Klondike

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• Map of the Chilkoot and White Passes
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• Skagway: Gateway to the Klondike
• Gold Fever! Seattle Outfits the Klondike Gold Rush
• University of Washington Libraries Exhibit
  • Alaska and western Canada collection
  • Eric A. Hegg photographs
  • Frank La Roche photographs
  • William E. Meed photographs
  • Henry M. Sarvant photographs
  • Arthur Churchill Warner photographs
  • Chilkoot Pass photographs
• Both Old and Recent Photographs of the Gold Rush Route, from Skagway to Dawson
• An article on the Klondike Gold Rush from The Canadian Encyclopedia

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