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Last Great Klondike Gold Rush Reaches High Tide
The piece recounts the 1896 1897 Klondike gold rush origin from Hendersons Luck and the Dawson City boom. It highlights Skookum Jim Nellie Cashman Soapy Smith and the deadly Skagway Dyea routes with harsh trials and eventual fortunes and fates of prospectors and residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dyea Trail
Klondike
Alaska
Dyea
Summit Lake
Crater Lake
Lake Lindeman
Robert Henderson
Henderson
Bonanza Creek
Dawson
Seattle
Yukon
Pacific
Lake Bennett
Lake le Barge
Dawson City
Edgar Young
George
Siepet
United States
Yukon River
Lynn Canal
Skagway
Chilco
White Pass
Nellie Cashman
Ireland
San Francisco
Nevada
Virginia City
Cassiar
British Columbia
Tombstone
Ariz
Wiseman
Koyukik
Seward
Jefferson Randolph Smith
Denver
Creede
Colo
Bob Ford
Jesse James
Cripple Creek
Smith
Winchester
Frank Reid
Reid