Klondike Gold Rush

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English: The Klondike Gold Rush was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and gold prospecting in the Klondike near Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada, after gold was discovered in the late 19th century.

Age of the rush[edit]

Chilkoot trail and Dalton trail[edit]

  • Dyea, beginning of Chilkoot trail, in March 1898

  • Sheep camp along Chilkoot trail, 1898

  • Chilkoot Pass Golden Stairs, 1898

  • Miners and prospectors climb the Chilkoot Trail (notice people gliding down to the right)

  • Chilkoot Pass boundary line, 1898

  • Tramway on Chilkoot Pass, 1898

  • Stampeder on frozen Crater Lake after Chilkoot Pass, 1898

  • Road house along the routes

  • Dalton trail to Klondike, ca. 1900

White Pass trail[edit]

  • Skagway, beginning of White Pass trail, in October 1897

  • Brackett Wagon Road toll gate on White Pass trail, 1898

  • Dead horses on White Pass trail, 1898

  • Klondiker on White Pass trail

  • Klondikers on White Pass trail, 1899

  • Opening of railroad through White Pass, 1899

Yukon River[edit]

  • View of Bennett, B.C. in 1898

  • Two men whipsawing lumber

  • Boat building on Bennett Lake in 1897-98

  • Miner's camp at the head of the Yukon River, 1898

  • On One Mile River between Lake Bennett and Lake Lindemann, 1898

  • Distributing of mail at Tagish Lake

  • Tramway at Miles Canyon, 1898

Dawson City[edit]

  • Miners waiting to register their claims, 1898

  • A mining operation

  • Klondikers selling their goods before returning home, 1898

  • Dawson City after a fire, 1898

  • Officers of 'B' Division, NWMP, Dawson, Yukon, July 1900

  • Dawson Front Street, 1899

  • Prostitution district in Klondike City, 1899

A hundred years later[edit]

Klondike[edit]

  • Discovery Claim at Bonanza Creek, Yukon, 2009

  • Hand operated hoist at Bonanza Creek, 2005

  • Dredge No-4 at Bonanza Creek, 2005

  • Yukon hotel in Dawson, 2005

  • Jack London`s cabin in Dawson, 2005

Chilkoot trail[edit]

  • Dyea, 2005

  • Boiler from Chilkoot trail, 2009

  • Chilkoot Pass, 2005

  • Happy Camp, 2005

  • Lake Lindemann, 2005

  • Crater Lake on Chilkoot trail, 2012

  • Bennett, 2012

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