When gold was sighted the Klondike Gold Rush Started. It unfolded in the Yukon and Alaska as a brief but amazing adventure, which has harnessed the imagination of people around the world ever since. The Klondike was a big hordes of people coming down to mine for gold. By a guess about 100,000 people wanted to make it to the Klondike hotspots to mine for gold, but only about 30,000 to 40,000 actually made it. Many other lost their lives on the way. The gold rush formed the uprising for the Klondike gold rush from the summer of 1896 to the summer of 1899.
In August 1896, Skookum Jim Mason, Dawson Charlie and George Washington Cormack discovered gold on the Klondike River in Yukon bordering Alaska. The group didn’t know that they would start to begin one of the most famous gold rushes of all time. Starting in 1896 over 10,000 of excited gold miners, oblivious to the fact that most of the best Klondike claims were already taken, boarded ships from Washington and other Pacific port cities like California and headed north toward the land of Alaska to find gold to make money. …show more content…
His small property was overrun with over 10,000 temporary people struggling to get their required years’ worth of reserves of gear to make it over the Coast Range and down the Yukon River headwaters to lakes Lindeman and Bennett. Dyea, about three miles away from the head of Taiya Inlet, faced the same huge population growth and had more activity. As prospectors poured ashore and started their way to the Chilkoot Trail going to Canada the population remained steady because of the miner’s
In August 1896, Skookum Jim Mason, Dawson Charlie and George Washington Cormack discovered gold on the Klondike River in Yukon bordering Alaska. The group didn’t know that they would start to begin one of the most famous gold rushes of all time. Starting in 1896 over 10,000 of excited gold miners, oblivious to the fact that most of the best Klondike claims were already taken, boarded ships from Washington and other Pacific port cities like California and headed north toward the land of Alaska to find gold to make money. …show more content…
His small property was overrun with over 10,000 temporary people struggling to get their required years’ worth of reserves of gear to make it over the Coast Range and down the Yukon River headwaters to lakes Lindeman and Bennett. Dyea, about three miles away from the head of Taiya Inlet, faced the same huge population growth and had more activity. As prospectors poured ashore and started their way to the Chilkoot Trail going to Canada the population remained steady because of the miner’s