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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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A century ago, thousands struggled through the churning waters of the White Horse Rapids to make it big when the Klondike Gold Rush struck.
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Potatoes were worth their weight in gold at the time of the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898).
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This was also the decade in which Washington State was severely effected by the 1893 economic collapse resulting in the second worse depression in the history of America that took four years to reverse beginning with the railroads and the Klondike gold rush.
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