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Background

The indigenous peoples in north-west America had traded in copper nuggets prior to European expansion. Most of the tribes were aware that gold existed in the region, but the metal was not valued by them.³⁴⁵ The Russians and the Hudson's Bay Company had both explored the Yukon in the first half of the 19th century, but ignored the rumours of gold in favour of fur trading, which offered more immediate profits.⁶⁷

In the second half of the 19th century, American prospectors began to spread into the area.⁸ Making deals with the Native Tlingit and Tagish tribes, the early prospectors opened the important routes of Chilkoot and White Pass and reached the Yukon valley between 1870 and 1890.⁹ Here, they encountered the Hän people, semi-nomadic hunters and fishermen who lived along the Yukon and Klondike Rivers.¹⁰ The Hän did not appear to know about the extent of the gold deposits in the region.¹¹

In 1883, Ed Schieffelin identified gold deposits along the Yukon River, and an expedition up the Fortymile River in 1886 discovered considerable amounts of it and founded Fortymile City.¹²¹³ The same year gold had been found on the banks of the Klondike River, but in small amounts and with no claims being made.¹⁴ By late 1886, several hundred miners were working their way along the Yukon valley, living in small mining camps and trading with the Hän.¹⁵¹⁶¹⁷ On the Alaskan side of the border, Circle City, a logtown, was established in 1893 on the Yukon River. In three years it grew to become "the Paris of Alaska", with about 1,200 inhabitants, saloons, opera houses, schools, and libraries. In 1896, it was so well-known that a correspondent from the Chicago Daily Record came to visit. At the end of the year, it became a ghost town, when large gold deposits were found upstream on the Klondike.¹⁸

Discovery (1896)

Main article: Discovery Claim

On August 16, 1896, an American prospector named George Carmack and two Tagish men, Skookum Jim (Keish), and Tagish Charlie (K̲áa Goox̱) were travelling south of the Klondike River.¹⁹ Following a suggestion from Robert Henderson, a Canadian prospector, they began looking for gold on Bonanza Creek, then called Rabbit Creek, one of the Klondike's tributaries.²⁰ It is not clear who discovered the gold: George Carmack or Skookum Jim, but the group agreed to let George Carmack appear as the official discoverer because they feared that authorities would not recognize an indigenous claimant.²¹²²²³

In any event, gold was present along the river in huge quantities.²⁴ Carmack measured out four strips of ground for mining along the river - two for himself as the discoverer and one each for Jim and Charlie.²⁵ These claims were registered the next day at the police post at the mouth of the Fortymile River and news spread rapidly from there to other mining camps in the Yukon River valley.²⁶

By the end of August, all of Bonanza Creek had been claimed by miners.²⁷ A prospector then advanced up into one of the creeks feeding into Bonanza, later to be named Eldorado Creek. He discovered new sources of gold there, which would prove to be even richer than those on Bonanza.²⁸ Claims began to be sold between miners and speculators for considerable sums.²⁹ Just before Christmas, word of the gold reached Circle City. Despite the winter, many prospectors immediately left for the Klondike by dog-sled, eager to reach the region before the best claims were taken.³⁰ The outside world was still largely unaware of the news, and although Canadian officials had managed to send a message to their superiors in Ottawa about the finds and influx of prospectors, the government did not give it much attention.³¹ The winter prevented river traffic, and it was not until June 1897 that the first boats left the area, carrying the freshly mined gold and the full story of the discoveries.³²

Beginning of the stampede (July 1897)

In the resulting Klondike stampede, an estimated 100,000 people tried to reach the Klondike goldfields, of whom only around 30,000 to 40,000 eventually did.³⁵³⁶ It formed the height of the Klondike gold rush from the summer of 1897 until the summer of 1898.

It began on July 14, 1897, in San Francisco and was spurred further three days later in Seattle, when the first of the early prospectors returned from the Klondike, bringing with them large amounts of gold on the ships Excelsior and Portland.³⁷ The press reported that a total of $1,139,000 (equivalent to $1 billion at 2010 prices) had been brought in by these ships, although this proved to be an underestimate.³⁸ The migration of prospectors caught so much attention that it was joined by outfitters, writers and photographers.³⁹

Various factors lay behind this sudden mass response. Economically, the news had reached the US at the height of a series of financial recessions and bank failures in the 1890s. The gold standard of the time tied paper money to the production of gold and shortages towards the end of the 19th century meant that gold dollars were rapidly increasing in value ahead of paper currencies and being hoarded.⁴⁰ This had contributed to the Panic of 1893 and Panic of 1896, which caused unemployment and financial uncertainty.⁴¹ There was a huge, unresolved demand for gold across the developed world that the Klondike promised to fulfil and, for individuals, the region promised higher wages or financial security.⁴²⁴³

Psychologically, the Klondike, as historian Pierre Berton describes, was "just far enough away to be romantic and just close enough to be accessible". Furthermore, the Pacific ports closest to the gold strikes were desperate to encourage trade and travel to the region.⁴⁴ The mass journalism of the period promoted the event and the human interest stories that lay behind it. A worldwide publicity campaign engineered largely by Erastus Brainerd, a Seattle newspaperman, helped establish that city as the premier supply centre and the departure point for the gold fields.⁴⁵⁴⁶

The prospectors came from many nations, although an estimated majority of 60 to 80 percent were Americans or recent immigrants to America.⁴⁷⁴⁸⁴⁹ Most had no experience in the mining industry, being clerks or salesmen.⁵⁰ Mass resignations of staff to join the gold rush became notorious.⁵¹ In Seattle, this included the mayor, twelve policemen, and a significant percentage of the city's streetcar drivers.⁵²

Some stampeders were famous: John McGraw, the former governor of Washington, joined, together with the prominent lawyer and sportsman A. Balliot. Frederick Burnham, a well-known American scout and explorer, arrived from Africa, only to be called back to take part in the Second Boer War.⁵³⁵⁴ Among those who documented the rush was the Swedish-born photographer Eric Hegg, who took some of the iconic pictures of Chilkoot Pass, and reporter Tappan Adney, who afterwards wrote a first-hand history of the stampede.⁵⁵⁵⁶ Jack London, later a famous American writer, left to seek for gold but made his money during the rush mostly by working for prospectors.⁵⁷⁵⁸

Seattle and San Francisco competed fiercely for business during the rush, with Seattle winning the larger share of trade.⁵⁹ Indeed, one of the first to join the gold rush was William D. Wood, the mayor of Seattle, who resigned and formed a company to transport prospectors to the Klondike.⁶⁰ The publicity around the gold rush led to a flurry of equipment adding "Klondike" to the name, allegedly designed for the northwest.⁶¹⁶² Guidebooks offered advice about routes, equipment, mining, and capital necessary for the enterprise.⁶³⁶⁴ The newspapers of the time termed this phenomenon "Klondicitis".⁶⁵

Routes to the Klondike

The Klondike could be reached only by the Yukon River, either upstream from its delta, downstream from its head, or from somewhere in the middle through its tributaries. River boats could navigate the Yukon in the summer from the delta until a point called Whitehorse, above the Klondike. Travel, in general, was made difficult by both terrain and climate. The region was mountainous, the rivers winding and sometimes impassable; summers, albeit short, still brought heat, while during the long winters, temperatures could drop below −50 °C (−58 °F).⁶⁶⁶⁷⁶⁸

Aids for the travellers to carry their supplies varied; some had brought dogs, horses, mules, or oxen, whereas others had to rely on carrying their equipment on their backs or on sleds pulled by hand.⁶⁹ Shortly after the stampede began in 1897, the Canadian authorities had introduced rules requiring anyone entering Yukon Territory to bring with them a year's supply of food; typically this weighed around 1,150 pounds (520 kg).⁷⁰ By the time camping equipment, tools and other essentials were included, a typical traveller was transporting as much as a ton in weight.⁷¹ Unsurprisingly, the price of draft animals soared; at Dyea, even poor quality horses could sell for as much as $700 ($19,000), or be rented out for $40 ($1,100) a day.⁷²⁷³

From Seattle or San Francisco, prospectors could travel by sea up the coast to the ports of Alaska.⁷⁴ The route following the coast is now referred to as the Inside Passage. It led to the ports of Dyea and Skagway plus ports of nearby trails. The sudden increase in demand encouraged a range of vessels to be pressed into service including old paddle wheelers, fishing boats, barges, and coal ships still full of coal dust. All were overloaded and many sank.⁷⁵

All water routes

It was possible to sail all the way to the Klondike, first from Seattle across the northern Pacific to the Alaskan coast. From St. Michael, at the Yukon River delta, a river boat could then take the prospectors the rest of the way up the river to Dawson, often guided by one of the Native Koyukon people who lived near St. Michael.⁷⁶⁷⁷ Although this all-water route, also called "the rich man's route", was expensive and long – 4,700 miles (7,600 km) in total – it had the attraction of speed and avoiding overland travel.⁷⁸ At the beginning of the stampede a ticket could be bought for $150 ($4,050) while during the winter 1897–98 the fare settled at $1,000 ($27,000).⁷⁹⁸⁰

In 1897, some 1,800 travellers attempted this route but the vast majority were caught along the river when the region iced over in October.⁸¹ Only 43 reached the Klondike before winter and of those 35 had to return, having thrown away their equipment en route to reach their destination in time.⁸² The remainder mostly found themselves stranded in isolated camps and settlements along the ice-covered river often in desperate circumstances.⁸³⁸⁴

Dyea/Skagway routes

Most of the prospectors landed at the southeast Alaskan towns of Dyea and Skagway, both located at the head of the natural Lynn Canal at the end of the Inside Passage. From there, they needed to travel over the mountain ranges into Canada's Yukon Territory, and then down the river network to the Klondike.⁸⁵ Along the trails, tent camps sprung up at places where prospectors had to stop to eat or sleep or at obstacles such as the icy lakes at the head of the Yukon.⁸⁶⁸⁷ At the start of the rush, a ticket from Seattle to the port of Dyea cost $40 ($1,100) for a cabin. Premiums of $100 ($2,700), however, were soon paid and the steamship companies hesitated to post their rates in advance since they could increase on a daily basis.⁸⁸

White Pass trail

Those who landed at Skagway made their way over the White Pass before cutting across to Bennett Lake.⁸⁹ Although the trail began gently, it progressed over several mountains with paths as narrow as 2 feet (0.61 m) and in wider parts covered with boulders and sharp rocks.⁹⁰ Under these conditions horses died in huge numbers, giving the route the informal name of Dead Horse Trail.⁹¹⁹² The volumes of travellers and the wet weather made the trail impassable and, by late 1897, it was closed until further notice, leaving around 5,000 stranded in Skagway.⁹³

An alternative toll road suitable for wagons was eventually constructed and this, combined with colder weather that froze the muddy ground, allowed the White Pass to reopen, and prospectors began to make their way into Canada.⁹⁴ Moving supplies and equipment over the pass had to be done in stages. Most divided their belongings into 65 pounds (29 kg) packages that could be carried on a man's back, or heavier loads that could be pulled by hand on a sled.⁹⁵ Ferrying packages forwards and walking back for more, a prospector would need about thirty round trips, a distance of at least 2,500 miles (4,000 km), before they had moved all of their supplies to the end of the trail. Even using a heavy sled, a strong man would be covering 1,000 miles (1,600 km) and need around 90 days to reach Lake Bennett.⁹⁶

Chilkoot trail

Those who landed at Dyea, Skagway's neighbour town, travelled the Chilkoot Trail and crossed its pass to reach Lake Lindeman, which fed into Lake Bennett at the head of the Yukon River.⁹⁷ The Chilkoot Pass was higher than the White Pass, but more used it: around 22,000 during the gold rush.⁹⁸ The trail passed up through camps until it reached a flat ledge, just before the main ascent, which was too steep for animals.⁹⁹¹⁰⁰ This location was known as the Scales, and was where goods were weighed before travellers officially entered Canada. The cold, the steepness and the weight of equipment made the climb extremely arduous and it could take a day to get to the top of the 1,000 feet (300 m) high slope.¹⁰¹

As on the White Pass trail, supplies needed to be broken down into smaller packages and carried in relay.¹⁰² Packers, prepared to carry supplies for cash, were available along the route but would charge up to $1 ($27) per lb (0.45 kg) on the later stages; many of these packers were natives: Tlingits or, less commonly, Tagish.^103104105 Avalanches were common in the mountains and, on April 3, 1898, one claimed the lives of more than 60 people travelling over Chilkoot Pass.¹⁰⁶¹⁰⁷

Entrepreneurs began to provide solutions as the winter progressed. Steps were cut into the ice at the Chilkoot Pass which could be used for a daily fee, this 1,500 step staircase becoming known as the "Golden Steps".¹⁰⁸ By December 1897, Archie Burns built a tramway up the final parts of the Chilkoot Pass. A horse at the bottom turned a wheel, which pulled a rope running to the top and back; freight was loaded on sledges pulled by the rope. Five more tramways soon followed, one powered by a steam engine, charging between 8 and 30 cents ($2 and $8) per 1 pound (0.45 kg).¹⁰⁹ An aerial tramway was built in the spring of 1898, able to move 9 tonnes of goods an hour up to the summit.¹¹⁰¹¹¹

Head of Yukon River

At Lakes Bennett and Lindeman, the prospectors camped to build rafts or boats that would take them the final 500 miles (800 km) down the Yukon to Dawson City in the spring.¹¹²¹¹³ 7,124 boats of varying size and quality left in May 1898; by that time, the forests around the lakes had been largely cut down for timber.¹¹⁴¹¹⁵ The river posed a new problem. Above Whitehorse, it was dangerous, with several rapids along the Miles Canyon through to the White Horse Rapids.¹¹⁶

After many boats were wrecked and several hundred people died, the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) introduced safety rules, vetting the boats carefully and forbidding women and children to travel through the rapids.^117118119 Additional rules stated that any boat carrying passengers required a licensed pilot, typically costing $25 ($680), although some prospectors simply unpacked their boats and let them drift unmanned through the rapids with the intent of walking down to collect them on the other side.¹²⁰ During the summer, a horse-powered rail-tramway was built by Norman Macaulay, capable of carrying boats and equipment through the canyon at $25 ($680) a time, removing the need for prospectors to navigate the rapids.¹²¹

Parallel trails

There were a few more trails established during 1898 from South-east Alaska to the Yukon River. One was the Dalton trail: starting from Pyramid Harbour, close to Dyea, it went across the Chilkat Pass some miles west of Chilkoot and turned north to the Yukon River, a distance of about 350 miles (560 km). This was created by Jack Dalton as a summer route, intended for cattle and horses, and Dalton charged a toll of $250 ($6,800) for its use.¹²²

The Takou route started from Juneau and went north-east to Teslin Lake. From here, it followed a river to the Yukon, where it met the Dyea and Skagway route at a point halfway to the Klondike.¹²³ It meant dragging and poling canoes up-river and through mud together with crossing a 5,000 feet (1,500 m) mountain along a narrow trail.

Finally, there was the Stikine route starting from the port of Wrangell further south-east of Skagway. This route went up the uneasy Stikine River to Glenora, the head of navigation. From Glenora, prospectors would have to carry their supplies 150 miles (240 km) to Teslin Lake where it, like the Takou route, met the Yukon River system.¹²⁴

All-Canadian routes

An alternative to the South-east Alaskan ports were the All-Canadian routes, so-called because they mostly stayed on Canadian soil throughout their journey.¹²⁵ These were popular with British and Canadians for patriotic reasons and because they avoided American customs.¹²⁶ The first of these, around 1,000 miles (1,600 km) in length, started from Ashcroft in British Columbia and crossed swamps, river gorges, and mountains until it met with the Stikine River route at Glenora.¹²⁷¹²⁸ From Glenora, prospectors would face the same difficulties as those who came from Wrangell.¹²⁹ At least 1,500 men attempted to travel along the Ashcroft route and 5,000 along the Stikine.¹³⁰ The mud and the slushy ice of the two routes proved exhausting, killing or incapacitating the pack animals and creating chaos amongst the travellers.¹³¹

Three more routes started from Edmonton, Alberta; these were not much better – barely trails at all – despite being advertised as "the inside track" and the "back door to the Klondike".¹³²¹³³ One, the "overland route", headed north-west from Edmonton, ultimately meeting the Peace River and then continuing on overland to the Klondike, crossing the Liard River en route.¹³⁴ To encourage travel via Edmonton, the government hired T.W. Chalmers to build a trail, which became known as the Klondike Trail or Chalmers Trail.¹³⁵ The other two trails, known as the "water routes", involved more river travel. One went by boat along rivers and overland to the Yukon River system at Pelly River and from there to Dawson.¹³⁶ Another went north of Dawson by the Mackenzie River to Fort McPherson, before entering Alaska and meeting the Yukon River at Fort Yukon, downstream to the Klondike.¹³⁷¹³⁸ From here, the boat and equipment had to be pulled up the Yukon about 400 miles (640 km). An estimated 1,660 travellers took these three routes, of whom only 685 arrived, some taking up to 18 months to make the journey.¹³⁹

"All-American" route

An equivalent to the All-Canadian routes was the "All-American route", which aimed to reach the Yukon from the port of Valdez, which lay further along the Alaskan coast from Skagway.¹⁴⁰ This, it was hoped, would evade the Canadian customs posts and provide an American-controlled route into the interior.¹⁴¹ From late 1897 onwards 3,500 men and women attempted it; delayed by the winter snows, fresh efforts were made in the spring.¹⁴²

In practice, the huge Valdez glacier that stood between the port and the Alaskan interior proved almost insurmountable and only 200 managed to climb it; by 1899, the cold and scurvy was causing many deaths amongst the rest.¹⁴³ Other prospectors attempted an alternative route across the Malaspina Glacier just to the east, suffering even greater hardships.¹⁴⁴ Those who did manage to cross it found themselves having to negotiate miles of wilderness before they could reach Dawson. Their expedition was forced to turn back the same way they had come, with only four men surviving.¹⁴⁵

Border control

The borders in South-east Alaska were disputed between the US, Canada and Britain since the American purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867.¹⁴⁶ The US and Canada both claimed the ports of Dyea and Skagway.¹⁴⁷ This, combined with the numbers of American prospectors, the quantities of gold being mined and the difficulties in exercising government authority in such a remote area, made the control of the borders a sensitive issue.¹⁴⁸

Early on in the gold rush, the US Army sent a small detachment to Circle City, in case intervention was required in the Klondike, while the Canadian government considered excluding all American prospectors from the Yukon Territory.¹⁴⁹ Neither eventuality took place and instead the US agreed to make Dyea a sub-port of entry for Canadians, allowing British ships to land Canadian passengers and goods freely there, while Canada agreed to permit American miners to operate in the Klondike.¹⁵⁰ Both decisions were unpopular among their domestic publics: American businessmen complained that their right to a monopoly on regional trade was being undermined, while the Canadian public demanded action against the American miners.¹⁵¹

The North-West Mounted Police set up control posts at the borders of the Yukon Territory or, where that was disputed, at easily controlled points such as the Chilkoot and White Passes.¹⁵² These units were armed with Maxim guns.¹⁵³ Their tasks included enforcing the rules requiring that travellers bring a year's supply of food with them to be allowed into the Yukon Territory, checking for illegal weapons, preventing the entry of criminals and enforcing customs duties.¹⁵⁴

This last task was particularly unpopular with American prospectors, who faced paying an average of 25 percent of the value of their goods and supplies.¹⁵⁵ The Mounties had a reputation for running these posts honestly, although accusations were made that they took bribes.¹⁵⁶ Prospectors, on the other hand, tried to smuggle prize items like silk and whiskey across the pass in tins and bales of hay: the former item for the ladies, the latter for the saloons.¹⁵⁷

Mining

Of the estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people who reached Dawson City during the gold rush, only around 15,000 to 20,000 finally became prospectors. Of these, no more than 4,000 struck gold and only a few hundred became rich.¹⁵⁸ By the time most of the stampeders arrived in 1898, the best creeks had all been claimed, either by the long-term miners in the region or by the first arrivals of the year before.¹⁵⁹ The Bonanza, Eldorado, Hunker, and Dominion Creeks were all taken, with almost 10,000 claims recorded by the authorities by July 1898; a new prospector would have to look further afield to find a claim of his own.¹⁶⁰

Geologically, the region was permeated with veins of gold, forced to the surface by volcanic action and then worn away by the action of rivers and streams, leaving nuggets and gold dust in deposits known as placer gold.¹⁶¹¹⁶² Some ores lay along the creek beds in lines of soil, typically 15 feet (4.6 m) to 30 feet (9.1 m) beneath the surface.¹⁶³ Others, formed by even older streams, lay along the hilltops; these deposits were called "bench gold".¹⁶⁴ Finding the gold was challenging. Initially, miners had assumed that all the gold would be along the existing creeks, and it was not until late in 1897 that the hilltops began to be mined.¹⁶⁵ Gold was also unevenly distributed, which made the prediction of good mining sites uncertain without exploratory digging.¹⁶⁶¹⁶⁷

Methods

See also: Mining methods of the Klondike Gold Rush

Mining began with clearing the ground of vegetation and debris.¹⁶⁸ Prospect holes were then dug in an attempt to find the ore or "pay streak".¹⁶⁹ If these holes looked productive, proper digging could commence, aiming down to the bedrock, where the majority of the gold was found.¹⁷⁰ The digging would be carefully monitored in case the operation needed to be shifted to allow for changes in the flow.¹⁷¹

In the sub-Arctic climate of the Klondike, a layer of hard permafrost lay only 6 feet (1.8 m) below the surface.¹⁷²¹⁷³ Traditionally, this had meant that mining in the region only occurred during the summer months, but the pressure of the gold rush made such a delay unacceptable.¹⁷⁴ Late 19th-century technology existed for dealing with this problem, including hydraulic mining and stripping, and dredging. Still, the heavy equipment required for this could not be brought into the Klondike during the gold rush.¹⁷⁵¹⁷⁶

Instead, the miners relied on wood fires to soften the ground to a depth of about 14 inches (360 mm) and then remove the resulting gravel. The process was repeated until the gold was reached. In theory, no support of the shaft was necessary because of the permafrost although in practice sometimes the fire melted the permafrost and caused collapses.¹⁷⁷ Fires could also produce harmful gases, which had to be removed by bellows or other tools.¹⁷⁸¹⁷⁹ The resulting "dirt" brought out of the mines froze quickly in winter and could be processed only during the warmer summer months.¹⁸⁰¹⁸¹ An alternative, more efficient, approach called steam thawing was devised between 1897 and 1898; this used a furnace to pump steam directly into the ground, but since it required additional equipment it was not a widespread technique during the years of the rush.¹⁸²

In the summer, water would sluice and pan the dirt, separating the heavier gold from gravel.¹⁸³ This required miners to construct sluices, which were sequences of wooden boxes 15 feet (4.6 m) long, through which the dirt would be washed; up to 20 of these might be needed for each mining operation.¹⁸⁴ The sluices in turn required much water, usually produced by creating a dam and ditches or crude pipes.¹⁸⁵ "Bench gold" mining on the hill sides could not use sluice lines because water could not be pumped that high up. Instead, these mines used rockers, boxes that moved back and forth like a cradle, to create the motion needed for separation.¹⁸⁶ Finally, the resulting gold dust could be exported out of the Klondike; exchanged for paper money at the rate of $16 ($430) per troy ounce (ozt)(31.1 g) through one of the major banks that opened in Dawson City, or simply used as money when dealing with local traders.¹⁸⁷¹⁸⁸

Business

Successful mining took time and capital, particularly once most of the timber around the Klondike had been cut down.¹⁸⁹ A mining operation required $1,500 ($42,000) of wood to melt the ground, around $1,000 ($28,000) to construct a dam, $1,500 ($42,000) for ditches and up to $600 ($16,800) for sluice boxes, a total of $4,600 ($128,800).¹⁹⁰ The attraction of the Klondike to a prospector, however, was that when gold was found, it was often highly concentrated.¹⁹¹ Some of the creeks in the Klondike were fifteen times richer than those in California, and richer still than those in South Africa.¹⁹² In just two years, for example, $230,000 ($6,440,000) worth of gold was brought up from claim 29 on the Eldorado Creek.¹⁹³¹⁹⁴

Under Canadian law, miners first had to get a licence, either when they arrived at Dawson or en route from Victoria in Canada.¹⁹⁵ They could then prospect and when they had found a suitable location, lay a claim to mining rights over it.¹⁹⁶ To stake a claim, a prospector would drive stakes into the ground a measured distance apart and then return to Dawson to register the claim for $15 ($410).¹⁹⁷ This normally had to be done within three days, and by 1897 only one claim per person at a time was allowed in a district, although married couples could exploit a loophole that allowed the wife to register a claim in her own name, doubling their amount of land.¹⁹⁸¹⁹⁹

The claim could be mined freely for a year, after which a $100 ($2,800) fee had to be paid annually. Should the prospector leave the claim for more than three days without good reason, another miner could make a claim on the land.²⁰⁰ The Canadian government also charged a royalty of between 10 and 20 percent on the value of gold taken from a claim.²⁰¹

Traditionally, a mining claim had been granted over a 500-foot (150 m) long stretch of a creek, including the land from one side of the valley to another. The Canadian authorities had tried to reduce this length to 150 feet (46 m), but under pressure from miners had been forced to agree to 250 feet (76 m). The only exception to this was a "Discovery" claim, the first to be made on a creek, which could be 500 feet (150 m) long.²⁰²²⁰³ The exact lengths of claims were often challenged and when the government surveyor William Ogilvie conducted surveys to settle disputes, he found some claims exceeded the official limit.²⁰⁴ The excess fractions of land then became available as claims and were sometimes quite valuable.²⁰⁵

Claims could be bought. However, their price depended on whether they had been yet proved to contain gold.²⁰⁶ A prospector with capital might consider taking a risk on an "unproved" claim on one of the better creeks for $5,000 ($140,000); a wealthier miner could buy a "proved" mine for $50,000 ($1,400,000).²⁰⁷ The well known claim eight on Eldorado Creek was sold for as much as $350,000 ($9,800,000).²⁰⁸ Prospectors were also allowed to hire others to work for them.²⁰⁹ Enterprising miners such as Alex McDonald set about amassing mines and employees.²¹⁰ Leveraging his acquisitions with short-term loans, by the autumn of 1897 McDonald had purchased 28 claims, estimated to be worth millions.²¹¹ Swiftwater Bill famously borrowed heavily against his claim on the Eldorado creek, relying on hired hands to mine the gold to keep up his interest payments.²¹²

The less fortunate prospectors soon found themselves destitute. Some sold their equipment and return south while others took manual jobs, either in mines or in Dawson.²¹³ The typical daily pay of $15 ($410) was high by external standards, but low compared to the local cost of living.²¹⁴ The possibility that a new creek might produce gold, however, continued to tempt poorer prospectors and caused small stampedes around the Klondike throughout the gold rush.²¹⁵

Life in the Klondike

The massive influx of prospectors drove the formation of boom towns along the routes of the stampede, with Dawson City in the Klondike the largest.²¹⁶²¹⁷ The new towns were crowded, often chaotic and many disappeared just as soon as they came.²¹⁸ Most stampeders were men but women also travelled to the region, typically as the wife of a prospector.²¹⁹ Some women entertained in gambling and dance halls built by business men and women who were encouraged by the lavish spending of successful miners.²²⁰

Dawson remained relatively lawful, protected by the Canadian NWMP, which meant that gambling and prostitution were accepted while robbery and murder were kept low. By contrast, especially the port of Skagway under US jurisdiction in Southeast Alaska became infamous for its criminal underworld.²²¹²²² The extreme climate and remoteness of the region in general meant that supplies and communication with the outside world including news and mail were scarce.²²³²²⁴

Boomtowns

The ports of Dyea and Skagway, through which most of the prospectors entered, were tiny settlements before the gold rush, Skagway consisting of only a single log cabin, and Dyea comprising a handful of Tlingit houses and the Healy & Wilson trading store.²²⁵ Because there were no docking facilities, ships had to unload their cargo directly onto the beach, where people tried to move their goods before high tide.²²⁶ Inevitably cargos were lost in the process.²²⁷ Some travellers had arrived intending to supply goods and services to the would-be miners; some of these in turn, realizing how difficult it would be to reach Dawson, chose to do the same.²²⁸ Within weeks, storehouses, saloons, and offices lined the muddy streets of Dyea and Skagway, surrounded by tents and hovels.²²⁹

Skagway became famous in international media; the author John Muir described the town as "a nest of ants taken into a strange country and stirred up by a stick".²³⁰ While Dyea remained a transit point throughout the winter, Skagway began to take on a more permanent character.²³¹ Skagway also built wharves out into the bay in order to attract a greater share of the prospectors.²³² The town was effectively lawless, dominated by drinking, gunfire and prostitution.²³³ The visiting NWMP Superintendent Sam Steele noted that it was "little better than a hell on earth ... about the roughest place in the world".²³⁴ Nonetheless, by the summer of 1898, with a population—including migrants—of between 15,000 and 20,000, Skagway was the largest city in Alaska.²³⁵

In early 1898 Skagway fell under the control of Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith and his men, who arrived from Seattle shortly after Skagway began to expand.²³⁶²³⁷ He was an American confidence man whose gang, 200 to 300 strong, cheated and stole from the prospectors travelling through the region.²³⁸²³⁹ He maintained the illusion of being an upstanding member of the community, opening three saloons as well as creating fake businesses to assist in his operations.²⁴⁰²⁴¹ One of his scams was a fake telegraph office charging to send messages all over the US and Canada, often pretending to receive a reply.²⁴² Opposition to Smith steadily grew and, after weeks of vigilante activity, he was killed in Skagway during the shootout on Juneau Wharf on July 8, 1898.²⁴³²⁴⁴

Other towns also boomed. Wrangell, port of the Stikine route and boom town from earlier gold rushes, increased in size again, with robberies, gambling and nude female dancing commonplace.²⁴⁵ Valdez, formed on the Gulf of Alaska during the attempt to create the "All-American" route to the Klondike during the winter of 1897–1898, became a tent city of people who stayed behind to supply the ill-fated attempts to reach the interior.²⁴⁶ Edmonton, Alberta (at that time, the District of Alberta in the Northwest Territories), Canada, increased from a population of 1,200 before the gold rush to 4,000 during 1898.²⁴⁷ Beyond the immediate region, cities such as San Francisco, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Vancouver and Victoria all saw their populations soar as a result of the stampede and the trade it brought along.²⁴⁸

Dawson City

Dawson City was founded in the early years of the Klondike goldrush, when prospector Joe Ladue and shopkeeper Arthur Harper decided to make a profit from the influx to the Klondike.²⁴⁹²⁵⁰ The two men bought 178 acres (72 ha) of the mudflats at the junction of the Klondike and Yukon rivers from the government and laid out the street plan for a new town, bringing in timber and other supplies to sell to the migrants.²⁵¹ The Hän village of Tr'ochëk along Deer Creek was considered to be too close to the new town, and the NWMP Superintendent Charles Constantine moved its inhabitants 3 miles (4.8 km) down-river to a small reserve.²⁵² The town, in the beginning simply known as "Harper and Ladue town site", was named Dawson City after the director of Canada's Geographical Survey.²⁵³ It grew rapidly to hold 500 people by the winter of 1896, with plots of land selling for $500 ($14,000) each.²⁵⁴

In the spring of 1898, the Dawson area population, including the surrounding gold fields, rose further to 30,000 as stampeders arrived over the passes.²⁵⁵ The centre of the town, Front Street, was lined with hastily built buildings and warehouses, together with log cabins and tents spreading out across the rest of the settlement.²⁵⁶ There was no running water or sewerage, and only two springs for drinking water to supplement the increasingly polluted river.²⁵⁷ In spring, the unpaved streets were churned into thick mud and in summer the settlement reeked of human effluent and was plagued by flies and mosquitoes.²⁵⁸ Land in Dawson was now scarce, and plots sold for up to $10,000 ($280,000) each; prime locations on Front Street could reach $20,000 ($560,000) while a small log cabin might rent for $100 ($2,800) a month.²⁵⁹ As a result, Dawson's population spread south into the empty Hän village, renaming it Klondike City.²⁶⁰ Other communities emerged closer to the mines, such as Granville on Dominion Creek and Grand Forks on Bonanza Creek.²⁶¹²⁶²

The newly built town proved highly vulnerable to fire. Houses were made of wood, heated with stoves and lit by candles and oil lamps; water for emergencies was wanting, especially in the frozen winters.²⁶³ The first major fire occurred on November 25, 1897, started accidentally by dance-hall girl Belle Mitchell.²⁶⁴ She also accidentally started a second major fire on October 14, 1898, which, in the absence of a fire brigade in Dawson, destroyed two major saloons, the post-office building and the Bank of British North America at a cost of $500,000 ($14,000,000).^265266267 The worst fire occurred on April 26, 1899, when a saloon caught fire in the middle of a strike by the newly established fire brigade.²⁶⁸ Most of the major landmarks in the town were burned to the ground: 117 buildings were destroyed, with the damage estimated at over $1 million ($28,000,000).^269270271

Logistics

The remoteness of Dawson proved an ongoing problem for the supply of food, and as the population grew to 5,000 in 1897, this became critical.²⁷²²⁷³ When the rivers iced over, it became clear that there would not be enough food for that winter.²⁷⁴ The NWMP evacuated some prospectors without supplies to Fort Yukon in Alaska from September 30 onwards, while others made their way out of the Klondike in search of food and shelter for the winter.²⁷⁵²⁷⁶

Prices remained high in Dawson and supply fluctuated according to the season. During the winter of 1897 salt became worth its weight in gold, while nails, vital for construction work, rose in price to $28 ($784) per lb (0.45 kg).²⁷⁷ Cans of butter sold for $5 ($140) each.²⁷⁸ The only eight horses in Dawson were slaughtered for dog food as they could not be kept alive over the winter.²⁷⁹²⁸⁰ The first fresh goods arriving in the spring of 1898 sold for record prices, eggs reaching $3 ($84) each and apples $1 ($28).²⁸¹

Scurvy, a potentially fatal illness caused by the lack of vitamin C, became a problem, particularly during the winter where fresh food was unavailable. English prospectors gave it the telling name of "Canadian black leg".²⁸²²⁸³ It struck, among others, writer Jack London and, although not fatal in his case, brought an end to his mining career.²⁸⁴ Dysentery and malaria were also common in Dawson, and an epidemic of typhoid broke out in July and ran rampant throughout the summer.²⁸⁵ Up to 140 patients were taken into the newly constructed St Mary's Hospital and thousands were affected.²⁸⁶ Measures were taken by the following year to prevent further outbreaks, including the introduction of better sewage management and the piping in of water from further upstream.²⁸⁷ These gave improvements in 1899, although typhoid remained a problem.²⁸⁸ The new Hän reserve, however, lay downstream from Dawson City, and here the badly contaminated river continued to contribute to epidemics of typhoid and diphtheria throughout the gold rush.²⁸⁹²⁹⁰

Conspicuous consumption

Despite these challenges, the huge quantities of gold coming through Dawson City encouraged a lavish lifestyle amongst the richer prospectors. Saloons were typically open 24 hours a day, with whiskey the standard drink.²⁹¹ Gambling was popular, with the major saloons each running their own rooms; a culture of high stakes evolved, with rich prospectors routinely betting $1,000 ($28,000) at dice or playing for a $5,000 ($140,000) poker pot.²⁹²²⁹³ The establishments around Front Street had grand façades in a Parisian style, mirrors and plate-glass windows and, from late 1898, were lit by electric light.²⁹⁴ The dance halls in Dawson were particularly prestigious and major status symbols, both for customers and their owners.²⁹⁵ Wealthy prospectors were expected to drink champagne at $60 ($1,660) a bottle, and the Pavilion dancehall cost its owner, Charlie Kimball, as much as $100,000 ($2,800,000) to construct and decorate.²⁹⁶ Elaborate opera houses were built, bringing singers and specialty acts to Dawson.²⁹⁷

Tales abounded of prospectors spending huge sums on entertainment — Jimmy McMahon once spent $28,000 ($784,000) in a single evening, for example.²⁹⁸ Most payments were made in gold dust and in places like saloons, there was so much spilled gold that a profit could be made just by sweeping the floor.²⁹⁹ Some of the richest prospectors lived flamboyantly in Dawson. Swiftwater Bill, a gambler who rarely went anywhere without wearing silk and diamonds, was one of them. When he discovered the woman he was in love with (who liked eggs, an expensive luxury) was dining with another man, he allegedly bought all the eggs in Dawson, had them boiled and fed them to dogs.³⁰⁰ Another miner, Frank Conrad, threw a sequence of gold objects onto a ship as tokens of his esteem when his favourite singer left Dawson City.³⁰¹³⁰² The wealthiest dance-hall girls followed suit: Daisy D'Avara had a belt made for herself from $340 ($9,520) in gold dollar coins; another, Gertie Lovejoy, had a diamond inserted between her two front teeth.³⁰³ The miner and businessman Alex McDonald, despite being styled the "King of the Klondike", was unusual amongst his peers for his lack of grandiose spending.

Law and order

Unlike its American equivalents, Dawson City was a law-abiding town.³⁰⁴³⁰⁵ By 1897, 96 members of the NWMP had been sent to the district and by 1898, this had increased to 288, an expensive commitment by the Canadian government.³⁰⁶³⁰⁷ By June 1898, the force was headed by Colonel Sam Steele, an officer with a reputation for firm discipline.³⁰⁸ In 1898, there were no murders and only a few major thefts; in all, only about 150 arrests were made in the Yukon for serious offences that year.³⁰⁹ Of these arrests, over half were for prostitution and resulted from an attempt by the NWMP to regulate the sex industry in Dawson: regular monthly arrests, $50 ($1,400) fines and medical inspections were imposed, with the proceeds being used to fund the local hospitals.³¹⁰³¹¹ The so-called blue laws were strictly enforced. Saloons and other establishments closed promptly at midnight on Saturday, and anyone caught working on Sunday was liable to be fined or set to chopping firewood for the NWMP.³¹²³¹³ The NWMP are generally regarded by historians to have been an efficient and honest force during the period, although their task was helped by the geography of the Klondike which made it relatively easy to bar entry to undesirables or prevent suspects from leaving the region.³¹⁴³¹⁵

In contrast to the NWMP, the early civil authorities were criticized by the prospectors for being inept and potentially corrupt.³¹⁶ Thomas Fawcett was the gold commissioner and temporary head of the Klondike administration at the start of the gold rush; he was accused of keeping the details of new claims secret and allowing what historian Kathryn Winslow termed "carelessness, ignorance and partiality" to reign in the mine recorder's office.³¹⁷ Following campaigns against him by prospectors, who were backed by the local press, Fawcett was relieved by the Canadian government.³¹⁸ His successor, Major James Morrow Walsh, was considered a stronger character and arrived in May 1898, but fell ill and returned east in July.³¹⁹ It was left to his replacement, William Ogilvie, supported by a Royal Commission, to conduct reforms.³²⁰ The Commission, in lack of evidence, cleared Fawcett of all charges, which meant that he was not punished further than being relieved.³²¹ Ogilvie proved a much stronger administrator and subsequently revisited many of the mining surveys of his predecessors.³²²

News and mail

In the remote Klondike, there was great demand for news and contact with the world outside. During the first months of the stampede in 1897, it was said that no news was too old to be read. In the lack of newspapers, some prospectors would read can labels until they knew them by heart.³²³ The following year, two teams fought their way over the passes to reach Dawson City first, complete with printing-presses, with the aim of gaining control of the newspaper market.³²⁴ Gene Kelly, the editor of the Klondike Nugget arrived first, but without his equipment, and it was the team behind the Midnight Sun who produced the first daily newspaper in Dawson.^325326327 The Dawson Miner followed shortly after, bringing the number of daily newspapers in the town during the gold rush up to three.³²⁸ The Nugget sold for $24 ($680) as an annual subscription, and became well known for championing miners and for its lucid coverage of scandals.³²⁹ Paper was often hard to find and during the winter of 1898–99, the Nugget had to be printed on butcher's wrapping paper.³³⁰ News could also be told. In June, 1898, a prospector bought an edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer at an auction and charged spectators a dollar each to have it read aloud in one of Dawson's halls.³³¹

Mail service was chaotic during the stampede.³³² Apart from the number of prospectors, two major obstacles stood in its way. To begin with, any mail from America to Dawson City was sent to Juneau in South-east Alaska before being sent through Dawson and then down the Yukon to Circle City. From here it was then distributed by the US Post Office back up to Dawson.³³³ The huge distances involved resulted in delays of several months and frequently the loss of protective envelopes and their addresses.³³⁴ The second problem was in Dawson itself, which initially lacked a post office and therefore relied on two stores and a saloon to act as informal delivery points.³³⁵ The NWMP were tasked to run the mail system by October 1897, but they were ill-trained to do so.³³⁶ Up to 5,700 letters might arrive in a single shipment, all of which had to be collected in person from the post office. This resulted in huge queues, with claimants lining up outside the office for up to three days.³³⁷ Those who had no time and could afford it would pay others to stand in line for them, preferably a woman since they were allowed to get ahead in line out of politeness.³³⁸ Postage stamps, like paper in general, were scarce and rationed to two per customer.³³⁹ By 1899, trained postal staff took over mail delivery and relieved the NWMP of this task.³⁴⁰

Role of women

In 1898 eight percent of those living in the Klondike territory were women, and in towns like Dawson this rose to 12 percent.³⁴¹ Many women arrived with their husbands or families, but others travelled alone.³⁴² Most came to the Klondike for similar economic and social reasons as male prospectors, but they attracted particular media interest.³⁴³ The gender imbalance in the Klondike encouraged business proposals to ship young, single women into the region to marry newly wealthy miners; few, if any, of these marriages ever took place, but some single women appear to have travelled on their own in the hope of finding prosperous husbands.³⁴⁴ Guidebooks gave recommendations for what practical clothes women should take to the Klondike: the female dress code of the time was formal, emphasising long skirts and corsets, but most women adapted this for the conditions of the trails.³⁴⁵ Regardless of experience, women in a party were typically expected to cook for the group.³⁴⁶ Few mothers brought their children with them due to the risks of the travel.³⁴⁷

Once in the Klondike, very few women—less than one percent—actually worked as miners.³⁴⁸ Many were married to miners; however, their lives as partners on the gold fields were still hard and often lonely. They had extensive domestic duties, including thawing ice and snow for water, breaking up frozen food, chopping wood and collecting wild foods.³⁴⁹ In Dawson and other towns, some women took in laundry to make money.³⁵⁰ This was a physically demanding job but could be relatively easily combined with child care duties.³⁵¹ Others took jobs in the service industry, for example as waitresses or seamstresses, which could pay well, but were often punctuated by periods of unemployment.³⁵² Both men and women opened roadhouses, but women were considered to be better at running them.³⁵³ A few women worked in the packing trade, carrying goods on their backs, or became domestic servants.³⁵⁴

Wealthier women with capital might invest in mines and other businesses.³⁵⁵ One of the most prominent businesswomen in the Klondike was Belinda Mulrooney. She brought a consignment of cloth and hot water bottles with her when she arrived in the Klondike in early 1897, and with the proceeds of those sales she first built a roadhouse at Grand Forks and later a grand hotel in Dawson.³⁵⁶ She invested widely, including acquiring her own mining company, and was reputed to be the richest woman of the Klondike.³⁵⁷³⁵⁸ The wealthy Martha Black was abandoned by her husband early in the journey to the Klondike but continued on without him, reaching Dawson City where she became a prominent citizen, investing in various mining and business ventures with her brother.³⁵⁹³⁶⁰

A relatively small number of women worked in the entertainment and sex industries.³⁶¹ The elite of these women were the highly paid actresses and courtesans of Dawson; beneath them were chorus line dancers, who usually doubled as hostesses and other dance hall workers.³⁶² While still better paid than white-collar male workers, these women worked very long hours and had significant expenses.³⁶³ The entertainment industry merged into the sex industry, where women made a living as prostitutes. The sex industry in the Klondike was concentrated in Klondike City and in a backstreet area of Dawson.³⁶⁴ A hierarchy of sexual employment existed, with brothels and parlour houses at the top, small independent "cigar shops" in the middle, and, at the bottom, the prostitutes who worked out of small huts called "hutches".³⁶⁵ Life for these workers was a continual struggle and the suicide rate was high.³⁶⁶³⁶⁷

The degree of involvement between Indigenous women and the stampeders varied. Many Tlingit women worked as packers for the prospectors, for example, carrying supplies and equipment, sometimes also transporting their babies as well.³⁶⁸ Hän women had relatively little contact with the white immigrants, however, and there was a significant social divide between local Hän women and white women.³⁶⁹ Although before 1897 there had been a number of Indigenous women who married western men, including Kate Carmack, the Tagish wife of one of the discoverers, this practice did not survive into the stampede.³⁷⁰ Very few stampeders married Hän women, and very few Hän women worked as prostitutes.³⁷¹ "Respectable" white women would avoid associating with Indigenous women or prostitutes: those who did risked scandal.³⁷²

End of the gold rush

By 1899 telegraphy stretched from Skagway, Alaska, to Dawson City, Yukon, allowing instant international contact.³⁷³ In 1898, the White Pass and Yukon Route railway began to be built between Skagway and the head of navigation on the Yukon.³⁷⁴ When it was completed in 1900, the Chilkoot trail and its tramways became obsolete.³⁷⁵ Despite these improvements in communication and transport, the rush faltered from 1898 on.³⁷⁶ It began in the summer of 1898, when many of the prospectors arriving in Dawson City found themselves unable to make a living and left for home.³⁷⁷ For those who stayed, the wages of casual work, depressed by the number of men, fell to $100 ($2,700) a month by 1899.³⁷⁸

The world's newspapers began to turn against the Klondike gold rush as well.³⁷⁹ In the spring of 1898, the Spanish–American War removed Klondike from the headlines.³⁸⁰ "Ah, go to the Klondike!" became a popular phrase of disgust.³⁸¹ Klondike-branded goods had to be disposed of at special rates in Seattle.³⁸²

Another factor in the decline was the change in Dawson City, which had developed throughout 1898, metamorphosing from a ramshackle, if wealthy, boom town into a more sedate, conservative municipality.³⁸³ Modern luxuries were introduced, including "zinc bath tubs, pianos, billiard tables, Brussels carpets in hotel dining rooms, menus printed in French and invitational balls" as noted by historian Kathryn Winslow.³⁸⁴ Visiting Senator Jerry Lynch likened the newly paved streets with their smartly dressed inhabitants to the Strand in London.³⁸⁵ It was no longer attractive for prospectors used to a wilder way of living.³⁸⁶³⁸⁷ Even the formerly lawless town of Skagway had become respectable by 1899.³⁸⁸

The final trigger, however, was the discovery of gold elsewhere in Canada and Alaska, prompting a new stampede, this time away from the Klondike. In August 1898, gold had been found at Atlin Lake at the head of the Yukon River, generating a flurry of interest, but during the winter of 1898–99 much larger quantities were found at Nome.^389390391 In 1899, a flood of prospectors from across the region left for Nome, about 2,500 from Dawson alone during August and September.^392393394 The Klondike gold rush was over.³⁹⁵

Legacy

People

Only a few hundred of the 100,000 people who left for the Klondike during the gold rush became rich, and only a handful managed to maintain their wealth.³⁹⁶ They typically spent $1,000 ($27,000) each reaching the region, which when combined exceeded what was produced from the gold fields between 1897 and 1901.³⁹⁷ Those who did find gold often lost their fortunes in the subsequent years and died penniless attempting to reproduce their earlier good fortune.³⁹⁸ Businessman and miner Alex McDonald, for example, continued to accumulate land after the boom until his money ran out; he died in poverty, still prospecting. Antoine Stander, who discovered gold on Eldorado Creek, abused alcohol, dissipated his fortune and ended working in a ship's kitchen to pay his way.³⁹⁹ The three discoverers had mixed fates. George Carmack left his wife Kate—who had found it difficult to adapt to their new lifestyle—remarried and lived in relative prosperity; Skookum Jim had a huge income from his mining royalties but refused to settle and continued to prospect until his death in 1916; Dawson Charlie spent lavishly and died in an alcohol-related accident.⁴⁰⁰⁴⁰¹

The richest of the Klondike saloon owners, businessmen and gamblers also typically lost their fortunes and died in poverty.⁴⁰² Gene Allen, for example, the editor of the Klondike Nugget, became bankrupt and spent the rest of his career in smaller newspapers; the prominent gambler and saloon owner Sam Bonnifield suffered a nervous breakdown and died in extreme poverty.⁴⁰³ Nonetheless, some of those who joined the gold rush prospered. Kathleen Rockwell, for example, became a famous dancer in Dawson and remained popular in America until her death. Rockwell's tales from the North invigorated readers and audience members across the United States and Canada. Becoming known as 'Klondike Kate' to those who read about her adventures, Rockwell became a star.⁴⁰⁴ However, her tall tales and catchy nickname were plagiarized from New Brunswicker Katherine Ryan, The Real Klondike Kate⁴⁰⁵, and one of the first individuals to arrive in the Klondike not long after gold was discovered in the area.⁴⁰⁶ Katherine Ryan may not have received deserving recognition in the public eye,⁴⁰⁷ but she is remembered as one of the first women to walk the Stikine Trail, as an early suffragette, and as an integral piece of Dawson City's culture.⁴⁰⁸ Dawson City was also where Alexander Pantages, her business partner and lover, started his career, going on to become one of America's greatest theatre and movie tycoons.⁴⁰⁹ The businesswoman Martha Black, who had been abandoned by her husband on the way to the Klondike, remarried and ultimately became the second female member of the Parliament of Canada.⁴¹⁰⁴¹¹

The impact of the gold rush on the Native peoples of the region was considerable.⁴¹² The Tlingit and the Koyukon peoples prospered in the short term from their work as guides, packers and from selling food and supplies to the prospectors.⁴¹³ In the longer term, however, especially the Hän people living in the Klondike region suffered from the environmental damage of the gold mining on the rivers and forests.⁴¹⁴ Their population had already begun to decline after the discovery of gold along Fortymile River in the 1880s but dropped catastrophically after their move to the reserve, a result of the contaminated water supply and smallpox.⁴¹⁵ The Hän found only few ways to benefit economically from the gold rush and their fishing and hunting grounds were largely destroyed. By 1904 they needed aid from the NWMP to prevent famine.⁴¹⁶

Places

Dawson City declined after the gold rush. When journalist Laura Berton (future mother of Pierre Berton) moved to Dawson in 1907 it was still thriving, but away from Front Street, the town had become increasingly deserted, jammed, as she put it, "with the refuse of the gold rush: stoves, furniture, gold-pans, sets of dishes, double-belled seltzer bottles ... piles of rusting mining machinery—boilers, winches, wheelbarrows and pumps".⁴¹⁷ By 1912, only around 2,000 inhabitants remained, compared to the 30,000 of the boom years, and the site was becoming a ghost town.⁴¹⁸ By 1972, 500 people were living in Dawson, while the nearby settlements created during the gold rush had been entirely abandoned.⁴¹⁹ The population has grown since the 1970s, with 1,300 recorded in 2006.⁴²⁰

During the gold rush, transport improvements meant that heavier mining equipment could be brought in and larger, more modern mines established in the Klondike, revolutionising the gold industry.⁴²¹⁴²² Gold production increased until 1903 as a result of the dredging and hydraulic mining, but then declined; by 2005, approximately 1,250,000 pounds (570,000 kg) had been recovered from the Klondike area.^423424425 In the 21st century, Dawson City still has a small gold mining industry, which together with tourism, taking advantage of the legacy of the gold rush, plays a role in the local economy. Many buildings in the centre of the town reflect the style of the era.⁴²⁶ The Klondike River valley was affected by the gold rush by the heavy dredging that occurred after it.⁴²⁷

The port of Skagway also shrank after the rush, but remains a well-preserved period town, centred on the tourist industry and sightseeing trips from visiting cruise ships.⁴²⁸ The National Park Service restored Jeff Smith's Parlor, from which the famous con man "Soapy" Smith once operated, during 2010–2016.⁴²⁹⁴³⁰ Skagway also has one of the two visitor centres forming the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park; the other is located in Seattle, and both focus on the human interest stories behind the gold rush.⁴³¹ By contrast, Dyea, Skagway's neighbour and former rival, was abandoned after the gold rush and is now a ghost town.⁴³² The railway built for prospectors through White Pass in the last year of the rush reopened in 1988 and is today only used by tourists, closely linked to the Chilkoot trail which is a popular hiking route.⁴³³

The Tr’ondëk-Klondike World Heritage Site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Canada, protects a series of eight properties that attest to the effects of the rapid colonization of the area, including the Gold Rush, on the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people. The World Heritage Site was designated in 2023.⁴³⁴

Culture

Main article: Cultural legacy of the Klondike Gold Rush

The events of the Klondike gold rush rapidly became embedded in North American culture, being captured in poems, stories, photographs and promotional campaigns long after the end of the stampede.⁴³⁵ In the Yukon, Discovery Day is celebrated on the third Monday in August as a holiday, and the events of the gold rush are promoted by the regional tourist industries.⁴³⁶⁴³⁷ The events of the gold rush were frequently exaggerated at the time and modern works on the subject similarly often focus on the most dramatic and exciting events of the stampede, not always accurately.⁴³⁸⁴³⁹ Historian Ken Coates describes the gold rush as "a resilient, pliable myth", which continues to fascinate and appeal.⁴⁴⁰

Several novels, books and poems were generated as a consequence of the Klondike gold rush. The writer Jack London incorporated scenes from the gold rush into his novels and short stories set in the Klondike, including The Call of the Wild, a 1903 novel about a sled dog.⁴⁴¹⁴⁴² His colleague, poet Robert W. Service, did not join the rush himself, although he made his home in Dawson City in 1908. Service created well-known poems about the gold rush, among them Songs of a Sourdough, one of the bestselling books of poetry in the first decade of the 20th century, along with his novel, The Trail of '98, which was written by hand on wallpaper in one of Dawson's log cabins.^443444445 The Canadian historian Pierre Berton grew up in Dawson where his father had been a prospector, and wrote several historical books about the gold rush, such as The Last Great Gold Rush.⁴⁴⁶ The experiences of the Irish Micí Mac Gabhann resulted the posthumous work Rotha Mór an tSaoil (translated into English as The Hard Road to Klondike in 1962), a vivid description of the period.⁴⁴⁷

Some terminology from the stampede made its way into North American English like "cheechakos", referring to newly arrived miners, and "sourdoughs", experienced miners.⁴⁴⁸⁴⁴⁹ The photographs taken during the Klondike gold rush heavily influenced later cultural approaches to the stampede.⁴⁵⁰ The gold rush was vividly recorded by several early photographers, for instance Eric A. Hegg; these stark, black-and-white photographs showing the ascent of the Chilkoot pass rapidly became iconic images and were widely distributed.⁴⁵¹ These pictures, in turn, inspired Charlie Chaplin to make The Gold Rush, a silent movie, which uses the background of the Klondike to combine physical comedy with its character's desperate battle for survival in the harsh conditions of the stampede.⁴⁵² The photographs reappear in the documentary City of Gold from 1957 which, narrated by Pierre Berton, won prizes for pioneering the incorporation of still images into documentary film-making.⁴⁵³ The Klondike gold rush, however, has not been widely covered in later fictional films; even The Far Country, a Western from 1955 set in the Klondike, largely ignores the unique features of the gold rush in favour of a traditional Western plot.⁴⁵⁴ Indeed, much of the popular literature on the gold rush approaches the stampede simply as a final phase of the expansion of the American West, a perception critiqued by modern historians such as Charlene Porsild.⁴⁵⁵

Charts and tables

Maps of routes and goldfields

Dyea/Skagway routes and Dalton trail

Takou, Stikine and Edmonton routes

Goldfields

Gold production in Yukon, 1892–1912

Population growth of west coast cities, 1890–1900

Klondikers supply list

• 150 pounds (68 kg) bacon
• 400 pounds (180 kg) flour
• 25 pounds (11 kg) rolled oats
• 125 pounds (57 kg) beans
• 10 pounds (4.5 kg) tea
• 10 pounds (4.5 kg) coffee
• 25 pounds (11 kg) sugar
• 25 pounds (11 kg) dried potatoes
• 25 pounds (11 kg) dried onions
• 15 pounds (6.8 kg) salt
• 1 pound (0.45 kg) pepper
• 75 pounds (34 kg) dried fruits
• 8 pounds (3.6 kg) baking powder
• 8 pounds (3.6 kg) soda
• 0.5 pounds (0.23 kg) evaporated vinegar
• 12 ounces (340 g) compressed soup
• 1 can of mustard
• 1 tin of matches (for four men)
• Stove for four men
• Gold pan for each
• Set of granite buckets
• Large bucket
• Knife, fork, spoon, cup, and plate
• Frying pan
• Coffee and teapot
• Scythe stone
• Two picks and one shovel
• One whipsaw
• Pack strap
• Two axes for four men and one extra handle
• Six 8-inch (200 mm) files and two taper files for the party
• Draw knife, brace and bits, jack plane, and hammer for party
• 200 feet (61 m) 0.375-inch (9.5 mm) rope
• 8 pounds (3.6 kg) of pitch and 5 lb (2.3 kg). of oakum for four men
• Nails, 5 pounds (2.3 kg) each of 6, 8, 10 and 12 penny, for four men
• Tent, 10 by 12 feet (3.0 m × 3.7 m) for four men
• Canvas for wrapping
• Two oil blankets to each boat
• 5 yards (4.6 m) of mosquito netting for each man
• 3 suits of heavy underwear
• 1 heavy Mackinaw coat
• 2 pairs heavy woollen trousers
• 1 heavy rubber-lined coat
• 12 heavy wool socks
• 6 heavy wool mittens
• 2 heavy over shirts
• 2 pairs of heavy, snag proof rubber boots
• 2 pairs of shoes
• 4 pairs of blankets (for two men)
• 4 towels
• 2 pairs of overalls
• 1 suit of oil clothing
• Several changes of summer clothing
• Small assortment of medicines

The list was a suggestion of equipment and supplies sufficient to support a prospector for one year, generated by the Northern Pacific Railroad company in 1897. The total weight is approximately 1 ton, and the estimated cost amounted to $140 ($3,800).⁴⁵⁸

Timeline

1896

• August 16: Gold is discovered on Bonanza Creek by George Carmack and Skookum Jim.
• August 31: First claim on Eldorado Creek is made by Antone Stander.

1897

• January 21: William Ogilvie sends news of the Klondike gold discovery to Ottawa.
• July 14: Excelsior arrives at San Francisco with the first gold from the Klondike and starts stampede.
• July 15: Portland arrives at Seattle.
• July 19: First ship leaves for Klondike
• August 16: Ex-mayor Wood from Seattle leaves San Francisco on his ship Humboldt with prospectors for Klondike (reaches St. Michael on August 29, but is forced to spend the winter on the Yukon River).
• September 11: 10% royalty is established on gold mined in Yukon.
• September 27: People without supplies for the winter leave Dawson in search of food.
• November 8: Work begins on Brackett wagon road through White Pass.

1898

• February 25: Troops arrive at Skagway to maintain order. Collection of customs begins at Chilkoot summit.
• March 8: Vigilante activity against Soapy Smith starts at Skagway.
• April 3: Avalanche kills more than 60 at Chilkoot Pass.
• April 24: Spanish–American War begins.
• May 1: Soapy Smith stages a military parade in Skagway.
• May 27: Klondike Nugget begins publication in Dawson.
• May 29: Ice goes out on Yukon River and flotilla of boats sets out for Dawson.
• June 8: First boat with stampeeders reaches Dawson.
• June 24: Sam Steele (NWMP) arrives at Dawson.
• July 8: Soapy Smith is shot to death in Skagway.
• September 22: Gold found at Nome, Alaska

1899

• January 27: The remnants of a relief expedition send out in winter 1897 finally reaches Dawson.
• February 16: First train from Skagway reaches the White Pass summit.
• April 26: Fire destroys business district in Dawson.
• August: 8000 prospectors leave Dawson for Nome, ending the Klondike Gold Rush.

Source:⁴⁵⁹

See also

• Australian gold rushes
• Cariboo Gold Rush
• Colorado Gold Rush

Notes

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Further reading

• Pringle, George Charles Fraser (1922). Tillicums of the Trail - Being Klondike Yarns Told to Canadian Soldiers Overseas by a Sourdough Padre. McClelland & Stewart.

External links

Archives

• Library and Archives Canada, images
• University of Washington Library, Digital Collections; Alaska and Western Canada Collection
• University of Washington Library, Eric A. Hegg Gold Rush Photography Collection
• University of Washington Library, Frank La Roche Photography; including images of the Klondike Gold Rush
• University of Washington Library, William E. Meed Photography
• University of Washington Library. Henry M. Sarvant Photography – Documents his adventures in the Klondike Gold Rush from August 1897 to November 1901
• Alaska Digital Archives
• Klondike Gold Rush Photo Albums at Dartmouth College Library
• Orville Herning Collection on the Klondike and Boston Gold Mining and Manufacturing Company at Dartmouth College Library
• Davies/Scroggie Collection of Yukon Correspondence and Records. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

References

1. Also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush, the Alaska–Yukon Gold Rush, the Canadian Gold Rush, and the Last Great Gold Rush. Traditionally known in French (an official language of Yukon) as La ruée vers l'or du Klondike (The Klondike Gold Rush). ↩

2. An estimated 14,000,000 oz (400,000,000 g) of gold has been taken from the area (until 2013), of which half came from Bonanza Creek and a quarter from Hunker Creek.[1] ↩

3. Berton 2001, p. 4. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

4. Emmons & De Laguna 1991, pp. 182–183. - Emmons, George Thornton; De Laguna, Frederica (1991). The Tlingit Indians. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-97008-0. https://archive.org/details/tlingitindians0000emmo ↩

5. Backhouse 1995, p. 7. - Backhouse, Frances (1995). Women of the Klondike. Vancouver: Whitecap Books. ISBN 978-1-55110-375-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=YL_bQwAACAAJ ↩

6. Berton 2001, p. 4. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

7. Some of the first prospectors had to supplement their income with fur trading in order to survive.[5] ↩

8. Berton 2001, p. 5. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

9. Berton 2001, pp. 7–9. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

10. Porsild 1998, pp. 44–45. - Porsild, Charlene (1998). Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0650-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=de4S9o3y6wQC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

11. One member of the Hän later commented that "my people knew all the Klondike, but they never know nothing about gold."[4] ↩

12. Berton 2001, pp. 9–15. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

13. Gould 2001, p. 8. - Gould, John A. (2001). Frozen Gold – a Treatise on Early Klondike Mining Technology, Methods and History. Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 1-57510-082-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=W_nNAAAACAAJ ↩

14. Gould 2001, p. 7. - Gould, John A. (2001). Frozen Gold – a Treatise on Early Klondike Mining Technology, Methods and History. Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 1-57510-082-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=W_nNAAAACAAJ ↩

15. Berton 2001, p. 14. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

16. Allen 2007, p. 2. - Allen, Douglas W. (2007). "Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush" (PDF). The Journal of Economic History. 67 (4): 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0022050707000459. S2CID 154301382. https://www.sfu.ca/~allen/klondike.pdf ↩

17. Porsild 1998, p. 46. - Porsild, Charlene (1998). Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0650-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=de4S9o3y6wQC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

18. Berton 2001, p. chp 4. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

19. Berton 2001, pp. 38–39. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

20. Berton 2001, pp. 38–42. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

21. Berton 2001, pp. 43–44. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

22. Cruikshank 1991, p. 124. - Cruikshank, Julie (1991). Reading Voices: Dan Dha Ts'Edenintth'E: Oral and Written Interpretations of the Yukon's Past. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre. ISBN 978-0-88894-728-4. OCLC 465712147. https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/465712147 ↩

23. To add even more confusion to the question of discovery, Robert Henderson and many of his contemporaries threw his name into the ring.[19] ↩

24. Berton 2001, p. 43. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

25. Berton 2001, p. 44. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

26. Berton 2001, p. 47. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

27. Berton 2001, p. 50. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

28. Berton 2001, pp. 51–53. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

29. Berton 2001, p. 53. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

30. Berton 2001, pp. 66–67. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

31. Berton 2001, pp. 68–69. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

32. Berton 2001, p. 87. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

33. "Seven Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a US Dollar Amount – 1774 to Present". MeasuringWorth. 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2011. http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/ ↩

34. At the time of the gold rush, the US and Canadian dollars were each attached to the gold standard and held equal value. For this reason, the academic literature and contemporary accounts do not usually differentiate between gold rush prices quoted in US or Canadian dollars. ↩

35. Berton 2001, p. 396. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

36. The initial broad estimates of the numbers involved in the stampede were produced by Pierre Berton, the classic secondary historian of the period, drawing on a number of sources, including the NWMP statistics generated along the trails.[31][32] The most recent academic work continues to accept these estimates, but further detailed analysis has been carried out, using the first, limited Yukon census by the NWMP that occurred in 1898 and the more detailed Federal census in 1901.[33] Historian Charlene Porsild has conducted extensive work on these records, comparing them to other documentary accounts of the period. This has generated improved statistics for the nationality and gender of those involved in the gold rush.[34] /wiki/Pierre_Berton ↩

37. Berton 2001, p. 93. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

38. Winslow 1952, pp. 30–31. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

39. Berton 2001, pp. 101–106. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

40. Berton 2001, p. 94. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

41. Morse 2003, p. 122. - Morse, Kathryn Taylor (2003). The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-98329-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=6-UsZcFDDfkC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

42. Berton 2001, p. 94. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

43. Morse 2003, p. 122. - Morse, Kathryn Taylor (2003). The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-98329-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=6-UsZcFDDfkC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

44. Berton 2001, p. 95. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

45. Berton 2001, p. 102. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

46. Berton 2001, p. 96. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

47. Fetherling 1997, p. 125. - Fetherling, George (1997). The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849–1929. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8046-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=dHcD1pi46qIC ↩

48. Porsild 1998, p. 201. - Porsild, Charlene (1998). Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0650-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=de4S9o3y6wQC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

49. Traditional historical analysis, as outlined by George Fetherling, has suggested around 80 percent were US citizens or recent immigrants to America. The 1898 census data suggests that 63 percent of Dawson City inhabitants at the time were American citizens, with 32 percent Canadian or British. As Charlene Porsild has described, however, the census data for the period is inconsistent in how it asked questions about citizenship and place of birth. Porsild argues that the level of participation from those born in the US, as opposed to recent immigrants or temporary residents, may have been as low as 43 percent, with Canadian and British-born members of the gold rush in the majority.[43][45] ↩

50. Berton 2001, p. 112. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

51. Berton 2001, p. 101. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

52. Berton 2001, pp. 101–102. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

53. Burnham 1926, pp. 251–279. - Burnham, Frederick Russell (1926). Everett, Mary Nixon (ed.). Scouting on Two Continents. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company. ISBN 978-1-4179-2318-2. OCLC 407686. https://books.google.com/books?id=h7rie_q9FmoC&q=Scouting%20on%20Two%20Continents.&pg=PP1 ↩

54. Berton 2001, pp. 102–103. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

55. Berton 2001, p. 275. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

56. Although Adney's work was not well-known at the time, his 1900 work The Klondike Stampede has become highly regarded by modern historians as a relatively accurate and modest account of the gold rush.[52] ↩

57. Winslow 1952, p. 132. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

58. For example, he worked as a river pilot on the rapids of Whitehorse during the summer of 1898.[53] ↩

59. Berton 2001, p. 114. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

60. Berton 2001, p. 102. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

61. Berton 2001, p. 106. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

62. The Klondike-themed goods ranged from special food to glasses, boots, cigars, medicines, soup, blankets, and stoves.[56] More unusual offers were a special Klondike bicycle, "ice bicycles", a wind-powered "boat sled", a "snow train", clockwork gold pans, and an X-ray gold detector designed by Nikola Tesla.[57] ↩

63. Berton 2001, p. 110. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

64. The Chicago Record 1897, p. ix. - The Chicago Record (1897). Klondike. The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers. Chicago: Chicago Records Co. ISBN 978-0-665-10537-1. https://archive.org/stream/klondikechicagor00chic#page/n5/mode/2up ↩

65. Berton 2001, p. 106. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

66. Gardner 2008, p. 394. - Gardner, Matthew (2008). Western Canada. Bath, UK: Footprint. ISBN 978-1-906098-26-1. https://archive.org/details/westerncanada0000gard ↩

67. The Chicago Record 1897, p. 23. - The Chicago Record (1897). Klondike. The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers. Chicago: Chicago Records Co. ISBN 978-0-665-10537-1. https://archive.org/stream/klondikechicagor00chic#page/n5/mode/2up ↩

68. The weather could both be a help and an obstacle. Winter travel meant deep snow and treacherous ice. However, the mud that formed each spring and fall would be frozen and snow would cover the sharp, jagged rocks that the traveller would have to avoid in the summer.[63] In theory, it was possible to travel even during winter using teams of dogs, but if the temperature dropped significantly even dog sled teams would have to pause and take shelter.[64] ↩

69. A good team of dogs was worth at least $1,000 ($28,000); a top set could reach $1,700 ($47,600), but in the desperate winter of 1897 to 1898 the price reached $500 ($14,000) a dog.[64][225] By the summer of 1898, approximately 5,000 dogs had arrived at Dawson City.[225] A dog could pull as much as a man and much faster. Some were imported from outside the region; native dogs, however, were considered superior. They had been bred with wolves, but were reportedly kind and easily handled.[226]Berton 2001, pp. 154–155. ↩

70. Berton 2001, p. 154. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

71. Berton 2001, p. 154. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

72. Berton 2001, pp. 238–239. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

73. Before the rush the price of such animals was $3–5 ($81–135).[68] ↩

74. Berton 2001, p. 124. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

75. Berton 2001, pp. 124–125. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

76. Berton 2001, p. 190. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

77. Porsild 1998, p. 59. - Porsild, Charlene (1998). Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0650-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=de4S9o3y6wQC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

78. Berton 2001, p. 190. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

79. Berton 2001, p. chp. 4,6. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

80. On the other hand, competition among railways to attract Klondikers led to a reduction in train fares.[74] ↩

81. Berton 2001, p. 190. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

82. Berton 2001, p. 190. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

83. Berton 2001, pp. 190–195. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

84. Former mayor of Seattle W. D. Wood led a party that tried to reach Dawson by this route. They too had to spend the winter along the frozen Yukon River, eating the supplies that Wood had hoped to sell at a profit in Dawson. Now he was forced to sell at his purchase price.[76] ↩

85. Berton 2001, pp. 140–141. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

86. Winslow 1952, p. 124. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

87. The biggest recorded poker game in Dawson occurred between the well-known gamblers Sam Bonnifeld and Louis Golden. $200,000 ($5,600,000) was put into the pot, which Bonnifeld won with a hand of four kings.[236]Adney 1994, p. 113. /wiki/King_(playing_card) ↩

88. The Chicago Record 1897, p. 97. - The Chicago Record (1897). Klondike. The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers. Chicago: Chicago Records Co. ISBN 978-0-665-10537-1. https://archive.org/stream/klondikechicagor00chic#page/n5/mode/2up ↩

89. Berton 2001, p. 140. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

90. Berton 2001, p. 141. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

91. Berton 2001, pp. 140–141. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

92. Jack London, who took the White Pass trail, has one of his characters describe how the prospectors treated their horses: "Men shot them, worked them to death and when they were gone, went back to the beach and bought more ... Their hearts turned to stone—those which did not break—and they became beasts, the men on the Dead Horse Trail."[83] ↩

93. Berton 2001, p. 141. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

94. Berton 2001, p. 141. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

95. A good team of dogs was worth at least $1,000 ($28,000); a top set could reach $1,700 ($47,600), but in the desperate winter of 1897 to 1898 the price reached $500 ($14,000) a dog.[64][225] By the summer of 1898, approximately 5,000 dogs had arrived at Dawson City.[225] A dog could pull as much as a man and much faster. Some were imported from outside the region; native dogs, however, were considered superior. They had been bred with wolves, but were reportedly kind and easily handled.[226]Berton 2001, pp. 154–155. ↩

96. Berton 2001, p. 155. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

97. Berton 2001, p. 241. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

98. Berton 2001, p. 236. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

99. Berton 2001, p. 243. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

100. Horses abandoned before the summit were later rounded up and shot.[89] ↩

101. Berton 2001, pp. 243–244. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

102. Berton 2001, p. 245. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

103. Berton 2001, p. 243. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

104. Winslow 1952, pp. 99–100. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

105. The NWMP operations to secure the Klondike territory cost the Canadian government $396,000 a year ($11,088,000).[181]Porsild 1998, pp. 41–42. ↩

106. Berton 2001, pp. 256–257. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

107. Around 70 people were initially believed to have been buried by the snow with between six and nine people subsequently rescued; however, the final toll remains uncertain.[95] ↩

108. Berton 2001, p. 244. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

109. Berton 2001, p. 247. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

110. Berton 2001, p. 247. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

111. Winslow 1952, p. 115. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

112. Berton 2001, pp. 262, 268–269. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

113. Some were hauled over the passes whole or piecemeal. One was the A. J. Goddard, a small river boat transported in pieces to Lake Bennett and assembled here. It made one trip to Dawson.[99] /wiki/A._J._Goddard ↩

114. Berton 2001, p. 269. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

115. Morse 2003, p. 51. - Morse, Kathryn Taylor (2003). The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-98329-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=6-UsZcFDDfkC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

116. Winslow 1952, p. 131. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

117. Berton 2001, pp. 272–273. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

118. Winslow 1952, p. 132. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

119. NWMP is now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police /wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police ↩

120. Winslow 1952, p. 132. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

121. The NWMP and Canadian government facilities needed enough wood each year to require a log pile 2 miles (3.2 km) long by four feet wide. Up to fifty prisoners worked on cutting wood at any one time; this was not easy work and formed an unpleasant deterrent for misdemeanours .[251]Berton 2001, p. 273. ↩

122. Berton 2001, pp. 356–357. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

123. The Chicago Record 1897, pp. 39–41. - The Chicago Record (1897). Klondike. The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers. Chicago: Chicago Records Co. ISBN 978-0-665-10537-1. https://archive.org/stream/klondikechicagor00chic#page/n5/mode/2up ↩

124. Berton 2001, pp. 207–208. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

125. Berton 2001, p. 207. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

126. Berton 2001, p. 207. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

127. Berton 2001, pp. 207–208. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

128. By international treaty, Canadians had the right of free navigation along the Stikine River, and therefore called it an All-Canadian route.[109] /wiki/Treaty_of_Washington_(1871) ↩

129. Berton 2001, pp. 207–208. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

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132. The Chicago Record 1897, p. 189. - The Chicago Record (1897). Klondike. The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers. Chicago: Chicago Records Co. ISBN 978-0-665-10537-1. https://archive.org/stream/klondikechicagor00chic#page/n5/mode/2up ↩

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135. Thome, Michael (July 19, 2012). "Klondike Trail". RETROactive. Government of Alberta. Retrieved April 16, 2016. https://albertashistoricplaces.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/klondike-trail/ ↩

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137. Berton 2001, pp. 226–232. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

138. Porsild 1998, p. 6. - Porsild, Charlene (1998). Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0650-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=de4S9o3y6wQC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

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152. Morrison 1985, p. 63. - Morrison, William Robert (1985). Showing the Flag: The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894–1925. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-0245-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=aELKzgmv4MsC ↩

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154. Berton 2001, pp. 154, 248–249. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

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158. Berton 2001, p. 396. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

159. Allen 2007, p. 3. - Allen, Douglas W. (2007). "Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush" (PDF). The Journal of Economic History. 67 (4): 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0022050707000459. S2CID 154301382. https://www.sfu.ca/~allen/klondike.pdf ↩

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161. Berton 2001, p. 1. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

162. Often most of the gold will be left in uneroded quartz ores, called mother lodes; however, at Klondike, a mother lode has never been found.[1] ↩

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172. Allen 2007, p. 11. - Allen, Douglas W. (2007). "Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush" (PDF). The Journal of Economic History. 67 (4): 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0022050707000459. S2CID 154301382. https://www.sfu.ca/~allen/klondike.pdf ↩

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174. Winslow 1952, p. 160. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

175. Allen 2007, p. 11. - Allen, Douglas W. (2007). "Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush" (PDF). The Journal of Economic History. 67 (4): 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0022050707000459. S2CID 154301382. https://www.sfu.ca/~allen/klondike.pdf ↩

176. Morse 2003, p. 92. - Morse, Kathryn Taylor (2003). The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-98329-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=6-UsZcFDDfkC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

177. Morse 2003, p. 99. - Morse, Kathryn Taylor (2003). The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-98329-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=6-UsZcFDDfkC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

178. The Chicago Record 1897, p. 17. - The Chicago Record (1897). Klondike. The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers. Chicago: Chicago Records Co. ISBN 978-0-665-10537-1. https://archive.org/stream/klondikechicagor00chic#page/n5/mode/2up ↩

179. Allen 2007, pp. 11–12. - Allen, Douglas W. (2007). "Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush" (PDF). The Journal of Economic History. 67 (4): 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0022050707000459. S2CID 154301382. https://www.sfu.ca/~allen/klondike.pdf ↩

180. Allen 2007, pp. 11–12. - Allen, Douglas W. (2007). "Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush" (PDF). The Journal of Economic History. 67 (4): 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0022050707000459. S2CID 154301382. https://www.sfu.ca/~allen/klondike.pdf ↩

181. In the summer, the sunshine would slowly thaw exposed permafrost at around the rate of 2 feet (0.61 m) every 12 hours; some miners felt this too slow and used burning techniques during the summer months as well.[146] ↩

182. Adney 1994, p. 419. - Adney, Tappan (1994). The Klondike Stampede. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0489-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=-33tYlV9T5sC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

183. Allen 2007, p. 12. - Allen, Douglas W. (2007). "Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush" (PDF). The Journal of Economic History. 67 (4): 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0022050707000459. S2CID 154301382. https://www.sfu.ca/~allen/klondike.pdf ↩

184. Winslow 1952, p. 170. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

185. Winslow 1952, p. 172. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

186. Winslow 1952, p. 171. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

187. Berton 2001, pp. 288–289. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

188. Only pure gold dust was bought by banks the rate being $16 ($430) per oz. "Commercial dust", still containing black sand, was bought by banks at $11 ($300) per oz. Local traders accepted commercial dust at the pure dust rate but made up for this by under weighing.[157] ↩

189. Winslow 1952, p. 172. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

190. Winslow 1952, p. 172. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

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193. Winslow 1952, p. 168. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

194. The claim belonged to the Swedish miner Charlie Anderson known as the "Lucky Swede", who bought it unproved while too drunk to remember. Anderson disputed the purchase, but the contract was enforced by the NWMP. Luckily for him, it proved to be incredibly rich.[160] ↩

195. Winslow 1952, p. 184. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

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199. Backhouse 1995, p. 156. - Backhouse, Frances (1995). Women of the Klondike. Vancouver: Whitecap Books. ISBN 978-1-55110-375-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=YL_bQwAACAAJ ↩

200. Allen 2007, p. 9. - Allen, Douglas W. (2007). "Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush" (PDF). The Journal of Economic History. 67 (4): 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0022050707000459. S2CID 154301382. https://www.sfu.ca/~allen/klondike.pdf ↩

201. The Chicago Record 1897, p. 148. - The Chicago Record (1897). Klondike. The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers. Chicago: Chicago Records Co. ISBN 978-0-665-10537-1. https://archive.org/stream/klondikechicagor00chic#page/n5/mode/2up ↩

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203. Despite the tensions over the sizes of claims in the Klondike, the position of miners was in fact more secure than in the California Gold Rush of 1848–52, where an influx of prospectors could lead to a reduction in size of existing claims.[168] ↩

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211. Berton 2001, p. 78. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

212. Berton 2001, pp. 80–81. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

213. Winslow 1952, p. 173. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

214. Winslow 1952, p. 173. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

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216. Berton 2001, p. 139. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

217. Winslow 1952, p. 140. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

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219. Porsild 1998, p. 20. - Porsild, Charlene (1998). Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0650-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=de4S9o3y6wQC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

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221. Winslow 1952, p. 142. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

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228. Berton 2001, pp. 137–138. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

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230. Berton 2001, p. 137. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

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232. Winslow 1952, p. 98. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

233. Berton 2001, pp. 148–149. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

234. Berton 2001, p. 149. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

235. Winslow 1952, p. 99. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

236. Smith 2009, p. 532. - Smith, Jeff (2009). Alias Soapy Smith: The Life and Death of a Scoundrel. Juneau: Klondike Research. ISBN 978-0-9819743-0-9. ↩

237. Berton 2001, p. 150. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

238. Berton 2001, pp. 150–151, 153, 331. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

239. By region is meant from the ships that sailed along the west coast to the Canada–US border at the Chilkoot and White Pass.[195] ↩

240. Smith 2009, pp. 454–455. - Smith, Jeff (2009). Alias Soapy Smith: The Life and Death of a Scoundrel. Juneau: Klondike Research. ISBN 978-0-9819743-0-9. ↩

241. Berton 2001, p. 152. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

242. Berton 2001, pp. 152–153. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

243. Smith 2009, p. 532. - Smith, Jeff (2009). Alias Soapy Smith: The Life and Death of a Scoundrel. Juneau: Klondike Research. ISBN 978-0-9819743-0-9. ↩

244. Berton 2001, pp. 327–329. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

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246. Berton 2001, pp. 198–202. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

247. Berton 2001, p. 412. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

248. Berton 2001, p. 412. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

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252. Porsild 1998, p. 49. - Porsild, Charlene (1998). Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0650-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=de4S9o3y6wQC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

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262. Berton 1974, p. 80. - Berton, Laura Beatrice (1974). I Married the Klondike. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 0-7710-1240-3. https://archive.org/details/imarriedklondike0000bert ↩

263. Winslow 1952, p. 226. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

264. Berton 2001, p. 386. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

265. Berton 2001, pp. 386–387. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

266. Winslow 1952, pp. 226–227. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

267. Dawson's response to the 1898 blaze was not helped by the refusal of the town to pay $12,000 ($336,000) for firefighting equipment, which had been delivered but not released by the importers. The equipment remained unused during the conflagration.[216]Coates 1994, pp. xix–xxi. ↩

268. Berton 2001, p. 387. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

269. Berton 2001, pp. 388–389. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

270. Winslow 1952, pp. 228–229. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

271. By contrast, in late 1897, Dawson City was flooded. The journalist Tappan Adney resembled it to a "mill-pond".[219]Berton 2001, pp. 105–106. ↩

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273. Allen 2007, p. 8. - Allen, Douglas W. (2007). "Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush" (PDF). The Journal of Economic History. 67 (4): 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0022050707000459. S2CID 154301382. https://www.sfu.ca/~allen/klondike.pdf ↩

274. Berton 2001, p. 162. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

275. Winslow 1952, p. 199. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

276. The US government had 500 reindeers send from Norway across the USA and up the Dalton trail to Dawson as relief. However, they did not arrive until long after the risk of starvation was over and in the meanwhile many of the animals themselves had died from hunger.[222] ↩

277. Winslow 1952, p. 149. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

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279. Winslow 1952, p. 149. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

280. A good team of dogs was worth at least $1,000 ($28,000); a top set could reach $1,700 ($47,600), but in the desperate winter of 1897 to 1898 the price reached $500 ($14,000) a dog.[64][225] By the summer of 1898, approximately 5,000 dogs had arrived at Dawson City.[225] A dog could pull as much as a man and much faster. Some were imported from outside the region; native dogs, however, were considered superior. They had been bred with wolves, but were reportedly kind and easily handled.[226]Berton 2001, pp. 154–155. ↩

281. Winslow 1952, p. 148. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

282. Berton 2001, p. 84. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

283. Porsild 1998, p. 148. - Porsild, Charlene (1998). Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0650-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=de4S9o3y6wQC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

284. Haley 2010, p. 111. - Haley, James L. (2010). Wolf: The Lives of Jack London. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-00478-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=AJ02cdqMJ_sC ↩

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286. Porsild 1998, p. 146. - Porsild, Charlene (1998). Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0650-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=de4S9o3y6wQC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

287. Morse 2003, p. 239. - Morse, Kathryn Taylor (2003). The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-98329-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=6-UsZcFDDfkC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

288. Morse 2003, p. 239. - Morse, Kathryn Taylor (2003). The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-98329-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=6-UsZcFDDfkC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

289. Porsild 1998, p. 50. - Porsild, Charlene (1998). Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0650-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=de4S9o3y6wQC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

290. For Yukon as a whole, the extreme cold could lead to cases of frostbite, resulting in injury or death.[234] /wiki/Frostbite ↩

291. Winslow 1952, p. 191. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

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293. The biggest recorded poker game in Dawson occurred between the well-known gamblers Sam Bonnifeld and Louis Golden. $200,000 ($5,600,000) was put into the pot, which Bonnifeld won with a hand of four kings.[236]Adney 1994, p. 113. /wiki/King_(playing_card) ↩

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298. Winslow 1952, p. 193. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

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304. Winslow 1952, p. 142. - Winslow, Kathryn (1952). Big Pan-Out: The Klondike Story. London: Phoenix House Ltd. OCLC 465425340. https://archive.org/details/bigpanoutklondik0000wins ↩

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306. Allen 2007, p. 7. - Allen, Douglas W. (2007). "Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush" (PDF). The Journal of Economic History. 67 (4): 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0022050707000459. S2CID 154301382. https://www.sfu.ca/~allen/klondike.pdf ↩

307. The NWMP operations to secure the Klondike territory cost the Canadian government $396,000 a year ($11,088,000).[181]Porsild 1998, pp. 41–42. ↩

308. Berton 2001, p. 308. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

309. Berton 2001, p. 307. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

310. Berton 2001, p. 307. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

311. Backhouse 1995, p. 108. - Backhouse, Frances (1995). Women of the Klondike. Vancouver: Whitecap Books. ISBN 978-1-55110-375-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=YL_bQwAACAAJ ↩

312. Berton 2001, pp. 306–307. - Berton, Pierre (2001). Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush 1896–1899. Toronto: Anchor Canada. ISBN 0-385-65844-3. https://archive.org/details/klondikelastgrea0000bert_m1g1 ↩

313. The NWMP and Canadian government facilities needed enough wood each year to require a log pile 2 miles (3.2 km) long by four feet wide. Up to fifty prisoners worked on cutting wood at any one time; this was not easy work and formed an unpleasant deterrent for misdemeanours .[251]Berton 2001, p. 273. ↩

314. Allen 2007, p. 8. - Allen, Douglas W. (2007). "Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush" (PDF). The Journal of Economic History. 67 (4): 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0022050707000459. S2CID 154301382. https://www.sfu.ca/~allen/klondike.pdf ↩

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359. Porsild 1998, pp. 177–178. - Porsild, Charlene (1998). Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0650-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=de4S9o3y6wQC&q=Klondike%20Gold%20Rush&pg=PP1 ↩

360. Backhouse 1995, p. 53. - Backhouse, Frances (1995). Women of the Klondike. Vancouver: Whitecap Books. ISBN 978-1-55110-375-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=YL_bQwAACAAJ ↩

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