The reporter Tappen Adney described the crush of people. "It is a motley throng ... Within a week, half of Dawson emptied. The Klondike Gold Rush had run its course.

Getting to the Klondike gold fields in 1897 required astonishing ... it was her unerring ability to anticipate what people ...

Parker Schnabel has faced an uphill battle this season on Gold Rush. The miner needs some big weeks to get anywhere close to ...

In 1896, Thomas Edison set off to a remote Canadian district near the Alaska border, with cameras in tow. He succeeded in capturing fascinating images of the prospectors brought in by the Gold Rush.

Following a shot of a newspaper that outlines the hardships of living in the Klondike, there are scenes a typical Klondike town, of people on a raft, and of people mining for gold.

The last great gold rush took place in the Klondike in 1897 ... prospectors and the diseases they brought decimated the native people. Once again, the discovery of gold was a mixed blessing ...

The gold rush of 1848 brought still more devastation. Violence, disease and loss overwhelmed the tribes. By 1870, an estimated 30,000 native people remained in the state of California, most on ...

In under than two years, almost 300,000 people flocked to the west coast ... physical and technical challenges faced by gold miners. Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (Washington and ...