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Klondike gold rush
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Klondike gold rush

Canadian gold rush of the late 1890s. Gold was discovered on Aug. 17, 1896, near the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers in western Yukon Territory. The news spread quickly, and by late 1898 more than 30,000 prospectors had arrived. Annual production peaked at $22 million worth of gold in 1900, and soon prospectors began moving on to Alaska. By the time mining ended in 1966, the area had yielded $250 million in gold.
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It's set in the Alaskan Gold Rush very modern piece in its own way because it's about ecology and the taking over of unexplored land for the benefit of finding gold.
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They came away after their sojourn perhaps with considerable profit (one will never know, as ladies never tell) but certainly with this diary full of observations about the peculiar people, food, and manners of the Alaskan Gold Rush of the 1890s.
Two women in the Klondike. (reprint, 1899) by Reference & Research Book News
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