The new novel from Beth Lewis tells the lesser-heard stories of the women who survived and thrived in the Gold Rush.

The California Gold Rush is well known and much studied but the Alaskan Gold Rush is far less talked about. In his new book The Floor of Heaven, bestselling author Howard Blum tells the story of ...

Pier 58, which was originally called Schwabacher’s Wharf, and then Pier 7, has a past covered in grit, gold-dust, and go-getters. This spot is where the Seattle of the 21st century was born.

The Yukon gold rush really began in early July of 1897, when a ship docked in Seattle, Washington. The local press had broadcast to the world that miners returning from Alaska were toting “bags ...

From 1896 to 1899 the Klondike Gold Rush transformed the region around Dawson City and the Yukon River. Thirty thousand people climbed the golden stairs on the Chilkoot trail on their way to ...

Facts about mining for gold in Yukon Territory - it was a tough life with no guarantees of striking it rich! Ranker - Video Posted: July 9, 2025 | Last updated: July 9, 2025 ...

While Klondike is not a true story in and of itself, it features real-life individuals in a fictitious narrative. Based on the 2010 novel, Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike by ...

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park unit in Pioneer Square is one of 34 national park office leases the administration plans to shutter, advocates said.

As early as the 1890s, during the Klondike gold rush, miners were unearthing mammoth skulls and tusks. Two men stand with the mastodon tusks and ox skull they found buried along Hunker Creek in ...

In one way, he was a rare relic, a member of the Klondike gold rush who stuck around. In another way, he was ahead of his time, tapped into the future. He was Martin Itjen, Alaska’s first proper ...