Klondike Gold Rush

In August 1896 George Washington Carmack and his two Indian companions, Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie, found gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory. Throughout the summer and autumn of 1897 and on into the winter, gold seekers poured into the newly created Alaskan towns of Skagway and Dyea.

Klondike Gold Rush Park and Area Designations

Skagway Historic District - National Landmark - June 13, 1962
Skagway Historic District - National Register - October 15, 1966
Chilkoot Trail - National Landmark - June 16, 1978
Klondike Gold Rush - National Register - June 30, 1976
International Historical Park - August 5, 1998

Skagway, Alaska was founded by a former steamboat captain named William Moore at the head of the White Pass Trail.
Dyea, nine miles away and close to the Chilkoot Trail going into Canada.

Gold seekers and emigrants faced their greatest hardships on the Chilkoot Trail out of Dyea and the White Pass Trail out of Skagway. More than 3,000 animals died on this trail, many at the place called Dead Horse Gulch.

The great Klondike Gold Rush ended as suddenly as it began.
Small towns like Dawson and Skagway began to decline, Dyea and others disappeared altogether.

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