Almost overnight the population of Dawson City exploded to 30,000 making ... currency in the booming town of Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 1900s. (Courtesy of the National ...

Exhausted and hungry, the prospectors stumbled into Dawson City in the ... off some of the gold nuggets he’d found in what ...

This finding triggered a veritable gold rush and lured over one hundred thousand adventurers to Dawson City from 1896 to 1899. The small town on the Klondike and Yukon River, became a large city with ...

With only around 1,500 residents, it seems more like a village than a genuine city. But back in the 1890s, during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush, Dawson City was home to more than 18,000 souls.

During the 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush, thousands of wealth-seekers ... and down the Yukon River to Dawson City and its goldfields. Today visitors can hike the raw, mountain moonscapes of the ...

The prospector and his family were living in a metal shack on the outskirts of Dawson ... to grow, the rush to exploit the Yukon’s exceptionally rich resources—gold, zinc, copper, and more ...

Last week, four interpreters from the Jack London Museum in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada traveled 3,200 miles to visit Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen.

gold is still being mined in Dawson City? One of the local prospectors is a descendant ... The magnificent nature of the Territories can be explored with the wide range of travel offers by "Yukon Wide ...