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Gold in the Yukon
Gold in the Yukon! Those words echoed around the world and like a magnet they attracted people by the thousands. Of the approximately 100,000 who set off for the Klondike Region of the Yukon, only a puny 25,000 made it. Some of the dreamers were miners, others were people in […]
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In the summer of 1896 a prospector named Skookum Jim discovered gold in Rabbit Creek which runs into the Klondike River, in Canada’s Yukon. The claims were registered at a camp called Forty Mile, because it was forty miles from Dawson on the Yukon River. Tour Train at Skagway Miners […]
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