Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1896, a man by the name of Skookum Jim found gold near the Klondike River in Yukon Territory, Canada. This sparked a gold rush ...

January 26, 1896 - Many Nebraskans joined in the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896. Two years after it began, an issue of the Omaha World-Herald noted two of its employees had gone to the gold fields. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

This weekend will mark 125 years since the arrival of the steamship PORTLAND with its cargo of gold on the Seattle waterfront – which signaled the start of the Klondike Gold Rush. That event shaped ...

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This collection of profound glimpses, drawn right from muddy camps, crowded saloons, and frozen riverbeds, is able to show us the real cost of chasing dreams. Some were able to get especially lucky ...