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    The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899...
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    Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is a national historical park operated by the National Park Service that seeks to commemorate the Klondike...
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    and Malcolm Waite. Chaplin drew inspiration from photographs of the Klondike Gold Rush as well as from the story of the Donner Party who, when snowbound...
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    Alaska. Together with the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–1899) and Fairbanks Gold Rush (1903–1911), Nome was among the biggest gold rushes north of 60 degrees...
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    A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners...
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    Hwëch’in First Nation. The Klondike is famed due to the Klondike Gold Rush, which started in 1896 and lasted until 1899. Since then, gold has been mined continuously...
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  • Klondike is a three-part miniseries about the Klondike Gold Rush that was broadcast by the Discovery Channel on January 20–22, 2014. Based on Charlotte...
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  • worldwide. The series follows the placer gold mining efforts of various family-run mining companies, mostly in the Klondike region of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada...
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    Victorian Gold Rush (1851–1860s) Fraser Canyon Gold Rush (late 1850s), Canada Witwatersrand Gold Rush (1880s), South Africa Klondike Gold Rush (1896–1899)...
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    The Pike's Peak gold rush (later known as the Colorado gold rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas...
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    California gold rush and would be used later at Nome. Jet of water washing down a hillside, 1898 Mining with sluices on hillside at Klondike, 1898 Hydraulic...
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    The Klondike River (Hän: Tr'ondëk) is a tributary of the Yukon River in Canada that gave its name to the Klondike Gold Rush and the Klondike region of...
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  • The Klondike Gold Rush is commemorated through film, literature, historical parks etc. The Tr’ondëk-Klondike World Heritage Site, a UNESCO World Heritage...
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    The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma...
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  • is named: Klondike Gold Rush, a historical migration to this part of the Yukon Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park North Klondike River, a tributary...
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    The Witwatersrand Gold Rush was a gold rush that began in 1886 and led to the establishment of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was a part of the Mineral...
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    Chilkoot Trail (category Klondike Gold Rush)
    centennial of the gold rush, the National Historic Site in British Columbia joined with the U.S. National Historical Park to form Klondike Gold Rush International...
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    but were then also deployed to control the Yukon region during the Klondike Gold Rush, and subsequently expanded their operations into the Hudson Bay area...
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    liberalism Gold rush Goldfields region of Victoria Klondike Gold Rush Oriental Claims Welcome Stranger The Cheese Stick, sculpture inspired by the gold rush Rickard...
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    The Carolina gold rush, the first gold rush in the United States, followed the discovery of a large gold nugget in North Carolina in 1799, by a 12-year-old...
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    figures account for only 6,000. During the Klondike Gold Rush an estimated 100,000 people tried to reach the Klondike goldfields, of whom only around 30,000...
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    near Haines, but Canada rejected that compromise. In 1897–98 the Klondike Gold Rush in Yukon, Canada, enormously increased the population of the general...
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  • California Gold Rush Cariboo Gold Rush Klondike Gold Rush Nome Gold Rush Otago Gold Rush Witwatersrand Gold Rush Gold Rush (1998 film), a Hong Kong film with...
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    Dawson City (category Klondike Gold Rush)
    the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–1899). Its population was 1,577 as of the 2021 census, making...
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    finding gold. The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves with others claimed to have discovered payable gold near...
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  • 1920, in Whitehorse, Yukon, where his father had moved for the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush. His family moved to Dawson City, Yukon in 1921. His mother, Laura...
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    followed by the construction of an Olmsted-designed park system. The Klondike gold rush started in 1896, but reached Seattle in July 1897. This constituted...
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  • 5: Interpreting the Klondike Gold Rush". Hard Drive to the Klondike: Promoting Seattle During the Gold Rush. Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park...
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    route somewhat parallels the route used by prospectors in the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush. In both British Columbia and Yukon, the highway is marked as Yukon...
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    Chilkoot Pass (category Klondike Gold Rush)
    unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. In the summer of 1998, the Site and the Park united to form Klondike Gold Rush International...
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