(Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada PA-005389, Panning gold during the Klondike Gold Rush) Gold had been discovered in the Yukon Territory ... population of Dawson City exploded to ...
During the 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush, thousands of wealth-seekers stampeded ... and down the Yukon River to Dawson City and its goldfields. Today visitors can hike the raw, mountain moonscapes ...
Exhausted and hungry, the prospectors stumbled into Dawson City in the ... off some of the gold nuggets he’d found in what ...