Pier 58, which was originally called Schwabacher’s Wharf, and then Pier 7, has a past covered in grit, gold-dust, and ...

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 ...

On July 17, 1897, the steamship Portland, carrying dozens of prospectors and 2 tons of gold from the Klondike, docked in Seattle.

The local gold rush of 1868 was hardly noticeable outside a handful of incurable optimists, but gold was undoubtedly in the eastern hills.

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 ...

When the Portland, the “ton of gold” ship that kickstarted the rush, arrived in 1897 Seattle with news of fabulous gold fields, the Al-Ki was the next transport scheduled for Alaska.

5 Gold Rush Era Bars That Are Still in Operation, From Former Speakeasies to Boom Town Saloons These bars have survived prohibition, world wars, and pandemics.

Routes to the Klondyke Gold Rush, from the 1897 Province Map of The Klondyke and the Gold Fields of the North-West Territory. Stewart hasn’t seen a Province Klondyke map in awhile, either.