The last great gold rush took place in the Klondike in 1897. The 100 thousand Americans who traveled there regenerated the economy of the Pacific Northwest and secured the financial future of ...

A Seattle newspaper headline touched off the frenzy in 1897. It read "Gold, Gold, Gold - A Ton of Gold." Few prospectors made it rich during the Klondike Gold Rush. By the time most gold-seekers ...

During the 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush, thousands of wealth-seekers stampeded through the Yukon—over the brutal Chilkoot Trail from Alaska; through treacherous rapids where the capital ...