In 1896, a man by the name of Skookum Jim found gold near the Klondike River in Yukon Territory, Canada. This sparked a gold rush the next year as hopeful miners, known as "stampeders," descended ...

At least one more monument to the aftermath of the Klondike Gold Rush remains on display – for now, at least: a plaque commemorating the 1909 Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition on the UW campus.

Corrie Francis Parks is an artist based out of Montana. Last year, she applied for the artist residency program offered by the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park. The program contracts ...

In his 1959 book “Friendly Feudin’: Alaska vs. Texas,” Texan humorist Boyce House declared, “The most famous event in the history of Alaska was the Klondike gold rush. And the Klondike isn ...

Alaska history: The first wave of what a modern toy aisle shopper might recognize as a board game arrived in 1897, when a bumper crop of Klondike Gold Rush games appeared on store shelves across ...

Gold Rush Alaska and the Klondike are brought alive in a new book by Howard Bluhm. The lives and thoughts of Soapy Smith, George Carmacks and others are re-constructed from their personal papers ...

The Klondike Gold Rush tells the legendary story of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush. Over 100,000 people voyage to the far North intent on reaching the Canadian boom-town Dawson City and striking it rich.

Klondike fever was rampant in Elmira in January, February, and March 1898. Local folks from all over New York and Pennsylvania were bound for Alaska. We wanted GOLD. It was the 1849 gold rush all ...