Photographer Will H. Leigh followed Klondike gold prospectors, documenting their travels, the landscape, everyday life and ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

The California Gold Rush is well known and much studied but the Alaskan Gold Rush is far less talked about. In his new book The Floor of Heaven, bestselling author Howard Blum tells the story of the ...

In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled ...

When the frenzy of the Yukon Gold Rush began in 1897, the young city of Seattle suddenly became an important stop on the way north for about 70 percent of all gold stampeders. "It was a large boon to ...

It took five years, but the Cadillac Hotel has finally shrugged off the rubble of the 6.8-magnitude Nisqually Quake, emerging as the new home of a museum commemorating Seattle's role as the gateway to ...