In the summer of 1899, gold was discovered around Nome in west Alaska, and many prospectors left the Klondike for the new goldfields, marking the end of the Klondike Rush.

Aug 6, 2024 · Alaska Native and First Nations communities adapted to hold onto another kind of wealth: their culture, land, and way of life. In August, 1896, Skookum Jim and his family found …

Aug 15, 2016 · In 1880 Joe Juneau discovered gold in the Silverbow Basin of Alaska. This discovery, and subsequent discoveries in the Klondike, Yukon region, and elsewhere …

Jan 17, 2018 · The Klondike Gold Rush, often called the Yukon Gold Rush, was a mass exodus of prospecting migrants from their hometowns to the Canadian Yukon Territory and Alaska after …

The discovery of gold set off two great rushes, the Klondike rush to goldfields near Dawson City and the rush to the hills beyond Cape Nome. Fueled by the economic depression of the mid …

Feb 1, 2024 · Headlines screamed "Gold!" The dream of a better life catapulted thousands of people to Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Their journey shaped them, and changed the people …

4 hours ago · An obscure element often found in gold mines used to be considered mining detritus. Now it is at the center of the U.S.-China trade war.

Aug 21, 2025 · Gold fever swept across Alaska and the Yukon like wildfire in the late 1890s, igniting dreams of untold riches in some of the most remote corners of North America. Though …

Alaska's gold rush began in 1896-97 when gold was discovered in the Klondike in Canada's Yukon Territory. Lured by the hopes of quick riches, thousands of prospectors streamed …

Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve was created in part to protect and interpret the history of the Klondike-Alaska gold rush and the legacy of placer gold mining.