Almost overnight the population of Dawson City exploded to 30,000 making ... currency in the booming town of Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 1900s. (Courtesy of the National ...
Exhausted and hungry, the prospectors stumbled into Dawson City in the ... off some of the gold nuggets he’d found in what seemed like a promising strike in the Klondike. Instantly, Mulrooney ...
This finding triggered a veritable gold rush and lured over one hundred thousand adventurers to Dawson City from 1896 to 1899. The small town on the Klondike and Yukon River, became a large city with ...
During the 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush, thousands of wealth-seekers ... and down the Yukon River to Dawson City and its goldfields. Today visitors can hike the raw, mountain moonscapes of the ...
Dawson City is a town of 2,400, known for being the heart of the historic Klondike Gold Rush that began in 1896. It is the second-largest municipality in the Yukon, a Canadian territory that ...