The Klondike Gold Rush
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- The Klondike Gold Rush tells the legendary story of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush. Over 100,000 people voyage to the far North intent on reaching the Canadian boom-town Dawson City and striking it rich. Historians and authors bring insight and perspective to the event that changed the lives of thousands. Present-day characters reveal that the frontier spirit is still alive in the Klondike. This WNED PBS production premiered in January 2015.
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My grandfather, (my father's father) went to the Klondike around 1899, worked for 10 years, saved his money, came back home, go married, bought a farm in Arkansas for cash, and raised 5 sons. He sold the farm for cash in 1934, moved to California, became a lobar contractor in the San Joaquin Valley, and later a land investor in the East Bay area east of San Francisco. He died in 1956 in Walnut Creek, CA, age 86. He didn't become a millionaire during his days in the Klondike, but he did alright. Because of the start from the money he made there, he managed to live a long comfortable life.
Sir, your granpa, is a true adventurer.
11 mo ago
He was a great man
Surprised he didn't freeze to death. I can't imagine living outdoors in the Yukon searching for gold back then. Would be something like -40 or worse temperatures all day long
My Grandfather was also in the Klondike Gold Rush.
He was friends of the poet Robert Service.
So Robert wrote a poem about him.
It's called the ballad of hard luck Henry.
With the money he earned from gold mining he started a construction company to build this new town called Vancouver.
I have a granduncle who filed an early mine claim and returned to his Nebraska home with enough gold to purchase property, etc. Several gold nuggets from his adventure are still in family possession today.
What Gold Rush was your granduncle involved in?
@@r.c.salyer3652 The earliest Klondike rush. Name was Charles Raymond. Apparently, he along with others fell in love (lust) with Klondike Kate.
Good story thx for sharing
@@brucesteele3052 What did Kate do for a living? was she a gold buyer?
was she a cheap bar ho?
My parents took our family on road trip thru the Yukon and Alaska in 1977 while the Alaska highway was still being built I believe and it still is the greatest experiences of my life.
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The Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek British Columbia through the Yukon Territory and on to Fairbanks Alaska was completed by the US Army and the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1942 as a binational WW2 military Highway.
The Canadian portion was turned over to the Canadian government in 1946 and was opened to the public during 1948.
The Alaska Highway has almost constantly been under construction ever since with straightening and grade realignment over muskeg, rivers and terrain obstacles.
Now totally paved (primarily 'chip sealed' except through built-up areas and population centres) gravel patches during the summer construction season are still featured (& were even more extensive during the mid 70s). During the early 60s it remained primarily a two lane gravel road where carrying at least two spare mounted tires was not just wise but a virtual necessity (in that era of bias ply nylon cord passenger and light truck tires).
Until at least the 80s to most North American kids, it probably felt practically like being on a pioneer trail to the Yukon Gold Rush!
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I live in Whitehorse, less than a mile from the Yukon River. I've lived here since I was 10 years old. Thank you for bringing a bit more of the history, of where I live, back to life.
Thanks.
I hiked the Chilkoot Trail in 1995 and was glad to see the trail end at Lake Bennett. From there we rode the narrow gauge train back to Skagway. Once in a lifetime adventure.
This is the best show I've seen online about Dawson Whitehorse and the Yukon
That journalist really risked his life for this story. I wonder if there is a movie about his journey if not they should make one.
I lived in dawson for the summer a few years back, it has so much history. I loved exploring abandoned cabins and trailers from the last 130 years. Dawson city does do a great job of keeping the history alive
A stepping back in time experience like none other.😉
Funny when you get a lot older in life, a lot of the information in between finally fills in. After college and quitting a boring suit and tie job downtown Los Angeles, I went to Alaska in 1970 with a friend in my Econoline Ford Van, 1300 miles up the gravel two land road to White Horse City. We did go to Dawson too, spending 3 weeks in the Yukon, and it was great to see this video. 1970 three were only about maybe less then 200 people still living there in Dawson, but did have an Assayer's Office with a huge Gold Scale in the window. Very few claims were still being reworked, but on that creek the Govt. had labeled one claim about half an acre where $13 Million had been taken out during the Gold Rush - and warning signs "Stay off the Claim, Private Property - and you could get shot"! I did not see this cemetery where this ladies relative was buried, but we did camp on top of the mountain overlooking Dawson for several days spending a lot time in the cemetery up there on top. Learned how rough and tumble the life was during the actual Gold Rush. In that cemetery, there were 21 buried Canadian Mounted Police and only two of them lived beyond the age of 19! All shot and killed. Two years later I learned that my uncle, Spencer Davis who had been a Navy Captain in the Spanish American War, and fought with Teddy Roosevelt, went up that Chilcoot Pass Trail over the Glacier and made it to the Gold Fields. In the 1990's my Dad related how my Grandfather was one of Jack London's favorite buddies in the SF Bay Area, and how he had his brother Jack had actually meet Jack London, looking to meet up with their Dad at a fair in Redwood City, CA. Jack London flipped them each a Silver Dollar (lots of money in 1919 or so), and told them to go on the Ferris Wheel while he sat and talked with my Grandfather. Years later after retiring to Mexico, and reading a lot about the Mexican Revolution. I found out that Jack London was also a close friend to Pancho Villa, and a "Socialist Millionaire" from his books, and would on occasion be invited down to "Fiesta" in Chihuahua, with Pancho and his men between military campaigns and he did.
what a great story .. thank you really enjoyed it
Glad you enjoyed it.
You have some amazing family history.... could you write an e book?
What a great story, especially about Jack London. Thanks
@@jacquelinemarie1078 Well then you might want to read this book: Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution
Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution by Frank McLynn | Aug 5, 2020; I retired in Mexico (you have more rights and liberties than in USA) and it's like living in the "Good Ole Days", like 1st part of last Century in USA - takes minimum 10 years off your life! There are stories in there that make Fiction seem ridiculous, and so much funny stuff going on in the heat of the battles. Tom Mix, the Silent Cowboy in Movies before the talkies actually got his horsemanship and gun-slinging skills while working a couple of years as a Volunteer Calvaryman in Villa's Army in the Desert of Northern Mexico. My Dad met Tom Mix on the set by the Railroad Tracks in Glendale where they were making movies. My Dad and his brother would skip school (Glendale, High - Glendale CA.) and go make $5.00 ( that too a lot of money then) as extra's on the sets. There at Glendale High, my Dad was friends with Marion Davies (John Wayne). John was like the captain of Boxing Club and my Dad was on the wrestling team. Most people don't know it but John Wayne became the Student Body President (according to my Dad), as he was quite popular way back then.
I worked as a tour guide in the 1990s. I loved traveling from Fairbanks to Tok, then hanging a left and head for the Top of the World hwy to Dawson City! I loved my time in Dawson. So many great stories and living history of the Klondike. I love hearing new details, and Tappen Addy's commentary.
This is the kind of quality educational content that the History Channel should be putting out, not that Gold Rush nonsense.
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agreed 100%
Oak Island, just one more foot deeper over here, turn in next week to see what they found.
@@jakebrakebill lolololololol
Who still watches History Channel?
@@spaceghost8995 I do every once and a while, to remind myself why I don't.
I was born in Alaska in 1963, while I was young I met one survivoring member of the Rush of '98. We have much history in Alaska and western Canada and to me it is still captivating. In Skagway it is still echoing the gold rush days. Dyea no long exists, however the relics can still been seen along the Chilkoot trail. In June 1900 the Yukon Whitepass Railway was completed from tide water at Skagway 110 miles to Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory. Too late for the rush but proved itself as a transportation system that has benefited the area.
The determination this journey would take unbelievable
Yeah...can you imagine today's "woke " youth actually WORKING that hard? I can't......they want everything GIVEN to them. You can thank the Liberals and Democraps for that.
There's been so many Gold Rush in the last 100 years but the Klondike Gold Rush will always be the rawest and most pure, driven by desperation and necessity
A woman of my own heart. Take time to say hello to see those who have past before. We don't know the names, but we feel a gratefulness. Those pioneers knew our pioneers.
May these and any more stories be told forever to keep not just the memory Alice but history itself which can change the fortunes and lives of today's descendants
God be blessed to make this continue
Great stories! I loved watching it! I am new immigrant in Canada, and my dad in Kazakhstan, read Jack London's books and he has never been to abroad, keeps telling me about Dawson city and Klondike Gold Rush, so I thought I'd watch about it. Also, it was interesting to read some of the comments here. Hoping to visit Yukon and Dawson city.
Jack London was there on site and found all his stories in the saloons.
These stories are awesome n Jack Londons couple books on the Yukon I've read myself enchanting stories I live by Detroit n I've always dreamed of visiting there myself Keep dreaming n I do hope your able to visit there and share your story with Your Father Peace n Love
Your dad would also love the poems of Robert Service. Same era, same location, same theme, just raw and awesome reading
Easy money gets the best of us. Especially gold. America was wild and free with so much to explore. Thank you pioneers
This is the best documentary I have seen on the subject.
Quite a brilliant documentary, thank you so much for uploading.
Our pleasure!
Truly an amazing story by amazing people of a time gone by, never to be seen again.
Glad you enjoyed the program.
I love her story of being able to find her great great uncle it's a personal closing but a new begging all in one...she now knows who she is....good for her! 😁💕😘👍
I hiked the Chilkoot Pass trail from Dyea up over the stairs to Lake Bennet a few years back. Aside from the natural beauty of it all, it's a fascinating walk through history. There are still a few artifacts like old shoes and machine parts laying around along the trail.
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing!
@@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia Can someone please tell me the piano piece playing at 1:50 to 1:58?
I’d love to hike that trail one day and mimic the journey to Dawson city. I became fascinated with this gold rush reading Jason’s Gold by Will Hobbs as a teenager. The wonder and adventure was so gripping. That journey would be a nice window into American ambition and grit
I've worked close to the Yukon. Winter is mean. Tough people.
this is simply an amazing story. i used to play that yukon trail game alot when i was young. every time i would go to my aunts house i would play it. really cool.
I think tpur talking about the "OREGON TRAIL"
@20:57 its great that she put her great uncles story to an end and got a resolution for her family. rip.
Thank you Wilson Foundation, CPAC and Rogers ❗❕❗✨
Wonderful story. Sad that so many lives were lost. I would love to visit Dawson someday.
This is better then a film about it.
Amazing story of the indomitable human spirit, as well as the allure of the big strike, and how it never dies with each passing generation. Be it Land, Gold, Stocks, Oil, IPO's or Bit Coin, the adrenaline of the rush is as perennial as the Klondike River !
Story of how stupid people are.lots of spirits were dominated. Most men did not get rich.
@@meganmclaughlin9056 Yes....today we want the gov't to care for us cradle to grave.
Yo i thought the same thing about crypto… modern day gold rush
I would absolutely love to go visit Alaska some day, it's always been number 1 on my places to visit, I love history and Alaska has a ton of it.
Was it illegal to smile back then , all these pics everyone always looks so serious or depressed .
In about 1978, my father rented a motorhome and with my two brothers and I, drove the entire gravel Alaska Highway. I fondly remember miles and miles of forest and wilderness. Now, I am reading James Michener's "Alaska" and learning more details of the adventures, the hardships and human spirit of the gold rush. I had no idea they had to build boats themselveas. Fascinating!!!
VACINATING STORY. THANKS
Thank you, I loved the whole film, it really made me realise that my struggles are nothing. Love from the UK.
You are so welcome!
The same is the reason I took my 10 year old son on a back packing trip across the Rockies in the Rocky Mountain Park. 30 lb. pack on him and 3 day back packing and camping out - dodging the bears to keep our food, wittinessing the wild life, but walking over a 13,000 ft pass with a heavy load and hardly any oxygen, I had to keep prodding him on - it was a struggle for both of us - the hardest he'd ever been through But, once done - I told him David everything that you experience in life will be some times hard, but never as hard as this trip. Congratulations you've done it and now I know you can endure what life throws at you - it will be down hill from here as as far as the pain is concerned.
... what a beautiful Pianoversion of "the leaving of Liverpool"... and phantastic docu.
Best regards from Germany
Dawson City is awesome. Hope to get back someday.
Stunning documentary!!
Many thanks!
A really fabulous documentary about a really fabulous piece of history... Thank you!
We appreciate it!
I can't imagine how hard it must have been for these folks! I could never do that
It sucked, and most men did not find gold.
Having gone to that part of alaska I couldn't imagine doing this.
@@meganmclaughlin9056many probably died in the cold trying to get there and staying. I seen the list of items required by the govt to even be there and it's not enough for 3 months.
I just spent 36 months up in the Yukon in construction It's an amazing wonderful place
Wow. The doc is great but these comments… y’all’s history as well. Just awesome. Thank you! 🥰
In August of 1975 my grandfather and I went on an Inside Passage cruise that had stops at a few ports of call including Skagway. We missed out on taking the train up to Lake Bennett so we set our sights on roaming the streets and shops of Skagway. We weren't disappointed. All the time we were there I had the eery feeling that I had been there before. As we walked through the shops that eery feeling became stronger and stronger. We decided to visit the town museum which is upstairs above the townhall if my memory serves me right. As I was going up rhe stairway I was thinking to myself when and why did they replace the beautiful wooden handrails with rails made of water pipe. At the top of the stairs there is a double doorway entrance into the museum. Once again I was overwhelmed with the exhibits and the views of the mountains surrounding town. Again, that eery feeling was haunting me. Grandpa and I then left the main tourist area and walked a few blocks out to the edge of town and passed some old homes and eventually back and caught a cab back to the ship. We had a great time while in Skagway and I hope to return there some day. Over the years I have watched a few tv programs about Alaska and Skagway. During one of those programs they took a tour of the museum. The tour guide stopped for a couple of minutes to explain why the beautiful wooden handrails had been replaced with rails made out of water pipe. Whoa, I was completely blown away. It is my conclusion that I was there in Skagway in 1897 during a past life. I had a similar, but not as strong, feeling when I visited the old gold mining town of Bodie, California. I can't explain these feelings very well so I just accept and live with the fond memories......
Glad you enjoyed teh program.
@@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia That's 'the' Buffalo ! 💀
My husband and I explored Bodie in the 80s. I had found a book in town written about Bodie and Rosa Mae a town prostitute. It said she was buried outside if the cemetery bc of her occupation and I found her grave. We had a great time exploring Bodie the book was a map to the town
A superb documentary!
This was 100% worth watching every second. Thank you for this fantastic production!
Wow, thanks!
I’ve always dreamed of going to Alaska it’s a beautiful place to be.god’s country
It should bee on every' one's bucket list. It's so much bigger, grander than anywhere else. People there life a lot harder, lover a lot harder, fight a lot harder drink a lot harder. Everything is more in the extreme. To think they log in the SE mainly in the winter - gives you an idea what it's like. Try and spend a month at least to see it's main parts and people.
@@r.c.salyer3652 and that's why I'm moving there. So rich in nature, history and culture. And hunting, fishing as well. 🇺🇸
Excellent show! Thanks!!!
I truly enjoyed that little bit of schistory
Pierre Berton’s wonderful book, Klondike, makes you feel like you were there.
Yes agree, the gentleman talking about the horse that died on the trail and was completely cut in half by walkers has always stuck in my mind . Read the book 20 plus years ago, must dig it out again.
I have a pocket compass on a chain my dad got from an old timer he knew. The guy was there, and claimed to have carried this compass over Chilkoot pass. Dad never wrote the guys name down, and I don’t remember it, so it’s just an old compass now. Dad used to say it could be in that picture of the line of men climbing the trail. I paused the video & got it out of the bookcase for a while.
Awesome documentary, about an awesome time!!
Imagine the excitement on the initial trip north!
If I had been around in those days I would definitely been one of the stampeders. Probably wouldn't have found any gold, but the adventure would have been the call of the wild.
Ya ever have "Yukon Jack"......one time I had too much....that shit was like drinking "magic mushrooms".....you saw shit and believe me, you heard the wild calling you.....and eventually the toilet.
Yea, those Days were the Days of Adventure. It took me until my 60's to finally realize that late 1800's and early 1900's, early last Century WAS the age of Discovery of so many wild countries and indigenous societies to be the first to explore them was priceless experience. I could not understand how my Dad had left his family (us) and traveled the World? He'd go on to circumnavigate on Merchant Ships the Whole World 13 times. Went to Madagascar when it was like "Jurasic Park", and not one sailor would leave the ship to spend a night on shore! He kept the memories of those horrific sounds come from deep in the jungle. His Captain came and got them out of a bar in Singapore and rushed them to their ship and said "cut the lines" as they steamed out and down the river with artillary rounds coming over their bow from the Japanese. It was when the Japanese invaded Singapore and they were some of the last to get out. During the 30's my Dad would dive for coins from the passengers arriving on the White Line Ships in Honolulu, then go bottle bootlegged beer at a warehouse. He'd sleep above the warehouse. One time in the 80's we asked him to come with us to Kaui, as we had rented a house on the beach for a week at Hanalei. His answer: No son, I've been there 154 times, holds no interest for me. He crewed also as an able bodied Seaman on the last Square Rigged Sailing Ship in the Pacific that regularly took Rum from Hawaii to California during the Prohibition. He even was in Moscow within 15 years after their Revolution. He was a hard rock miner in Utah and Idaho too. Then he was in WWII as a Medic on Vanuatu Island in South Pacific, where he had a front row seat of the battle of Guadacanal. There he shared a flight on a DC-3 with a couple of cannibal Pigmy Chiefs, one was quite happy he remembers, as he had just had one of his enemies for breakfast prior to the flight to go make pow wow with the US Generals. During the Depression while catching a ride on a freight train through the South. They were all taken off the train by the Greenville, Alabama Sheriff's posse, and jailed there. Then they were "rented out" to a local Lumber Company to cut timber on a chain gang - said it was just like in "Cool Hand Luke" with Paul Newman. After a month on the chain gang and no problems, they were trucked back to the same railroad site and put back on another "Westbound Freight"! These were only a few of his stories. All his family and peers seemed to know how fantastic his life was and even the millionaires in the family looked up to him. They knew he had the guts to sacrifice everything for the Adventure.
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This is so well done, kudos.
One of the best documenrys I've seen thankyou
Wonderful story of hardships and struggles are inspirational..
To those who have stories to tell .. I believe Samuel Clemens may have said, " Never let the facts get in the way of a good story!"
Several years ago I had the opportunity to ride the train up to the White Pass from Skagway and cycle back down to Skagway. Beautiful place but it’s easy to imagine how brutal and unforgiving it would be to those unprepared for the extreme conditions.
Really Enjoyed this!!!.. Very Wonderful Stories 💚
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very insightful doc . What a life to lead to fulfill your dreams of striking it rich from the resources abound .
Read Pierre Burton’s book Klondike. Incredible. Spell binding. Totally takes you back as though you were actually there. My wife and I hiked the Chilcoot Trail in 2011. Fabulous hike. Highly recommended. Visit Dawson City during Discovery Days. It’s done up extremely well and many period actors present. It’s really fantastic!
Sounds so cool n Thanks for the info on the book I'm a read it
Yes sir. I keep that book with me as i moved around from Canada to US.
Also Pierre Burton's mother Laura Burton wrote an interesting book about the Klondike Gold Rush, before, during and after the event. She was a school teacher living in Dawson City. The book is called "I Married the Klondike", also very frank and entertaining recount of this event. She wrote the book while Pierre was a toddler.
@@Curlyblonde I need to read that book.
@@Kanakid The book is out of print and is hard to find, but if you are lucky to get your hands on a copy, the stories are memorable. I found my copy at a Thrift Store many years ago. She writes about the many characters like Diamond Lil, Klondike Mike, Robert Service that she personally knew and the notable events that happened at the height of the Gold Rush. If you read both Laura & Pierre's books, take a trip to Skagway and go on the train over Chilicoot Pass (still from 1897), then go on to Dawson City. History will come alive for you and you'll understand the story behind everything you see.
I loved this documentary so much I’ve watched it twice.thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
I panned a little in the mountains above Salem, Oregon. Found a few grains. The were miners with pumps and hoses shooting water at high velocity into the stream bank and washing it into holding pools. I love pristine streams, and I found the devastation reprehensible.
Yeah some of those places got absolutely torn up by people who could afford those massive machines. 😕
What you are describing personally is Placer mining with a pan or a small hand powered sluicebox.
Commercial Placer mining with heavy equipment is banned in most of North America. It's quite highly regulated in Alaska and Yukon.
"Hydraulic Mining" that you describe is even more devastating to rivers and stream (riparian) habitats; as were the huge self propelled dredged that were introduced to the Dawson City area during the first third of the 20th century to rework historic placer sands and aggregate deposits.
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That was a treat. TH-cam is a bit like panning for gold. Sometimes you hit the mother-load. I am very drawn to the area.
Glad you enjoyed the program! Be sure to check out some of the other videos on our TH-cam channel.
I grew up with the Ballards of ''Sam Magee & Desparate Dan Magrew whose arms and legs stuck out like pegs as if they were made of wood. They are truly great Poems/Ballards My Father Passed 19/05/2022 at 91 yrs. But he read these iconic stories that i have always remembered. .... Means Something to Me R.W. Service Thankyou for my POPS XX
My family placer mined near Boundary Ak, about 60 miles from Dawson on a feeder creek of Walker fork, we would find pits, rocker boxes, windlasses and old
broken picks and shovels in the creek bottom where these two old timer brothers were drift mining in the winter, there were a couple old log cabins on the hill above the creek, their camp apparently, they would spend the winter panning out that gold they mined in the drift. the calendar on the inside wall of that defunct cabin said April, 1932, one side of the roof had collapsed and we dug it out, fixed the roof and turned it into a cook shack.
Great documentary... the beginings.....
My fav 70s gold documentary hands down is
The largest gold and copper deposit in the world / super tructure / spark
A grear example of the best geologists that against all odds went into TOUGH terrain
Glad you enjoyed it
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Yay, thank you!
DAM FINE SHOW ONE OF THE BEST
Very well done documentary!! Thank you!
Our pleasure!
An Irishman once said "There's so much land in west America was so plentiful that they had to stack it up and made mountains" 😆
thank you
You're welcome!
I bet it was a great adventure! And many got rich I bet…good for these brave men💪🏽
Very few got rich and many came home broke
@@colinsushiboy745 maybe you’re right…but I say good for them following their dreams, tough dudes😎
I’m cruising to Alaska in September and this video is perfect to prepare me. I love history!!
Enjoy the trip! Thank you for watching.
Fascinating story and tough people.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Cool clip :)
I will be there next month doing the same things but in modern way with metal detector and so on :) Cheers 🥃🥃
Very good documentary! Thank You!
Our pleasure!
When I was a teenager my school bus drivers father was in the Klondike and made it rich. He showed JD a gold nugget from his father was about the size of nickle or less than a quarter in size.
Wonderful story.
I have actually camped "on the marge of Lake Lebarge." Whilst driving through the Yukon Territory on my way from Anchorage to Haines, Alaska, I stayed the night in a campground in Lake Laberge Provincial Park. It seems Mr. Service had changed the park's name to make it rhyme with "the marge."
It was in April and there were still 24" (0.6m) of snow on the ground. As an aside, that night I saw the greatest display of the Northern Lights I've ever seen after living for 19 years in Alaska.
Those boats are quite amazing considering they started with an axe and saw! 😮
And, all this time, I thought Klondike was a candy bar. I feel so stupid right now...
Lol 😂😂
Great Stuff These are all People of Substance.
@30:30 I have collected old books for over 20 years and would love to just sit in that library ( I have a room in my house as a library ) close my eyes and just breath in the feeling of some of those books. May I add my collection though modest compared to this one ( about 150 in total) I am not their owner but a humble custodian of my old books for my generation. Love the black and white pics and footage it would have been an era indeed. At least this history thanks 2 you and others has not been lost.
Hard road to the Klondike movie about a guy who left a rural village in west Donegal and made his fortune there’s also a book about his life story very good read and movie is a good watch as well.
Amazing how similar people are today. The booming stock market and crypto craze have drawn millions of young people just as clueless as the stampeders. All of them feel just lucky enough to make it big.
People where risking their lives trying to find gold in Yukon Gold Rush. Today's investment schemes it's only money
So many people tramped on the Chilicoot Pass Trail that it wore the rock down smooth, so that you can still see the trail the stampeder's walked, along with the items that were discarded by them along the trail.
nice video.....with amazing grace forgiveness D& His friendship brings light in the darkness. all the best (.
Carl Barks wove this story into Uncle Scrooges back story. I first learned about the Klondike and Whitehorse through those comics.
Excellent historical review! I almost felt that I had been there....but I loathe cold weather!
We tried our best to "put you there" but we didn't want to put you in the cold haha! Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it!
What an incredible video. Awesome job.
Thank you very much!
What a great adventure
Absolutely!
Probably The Best Movie in the World about GOLD is''Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' I think Y'all know it. A Great portrayal about Greed .. R.I.P. Humphrey Bogart
Yeah, Bogart thinking everyone trying to steal his goods.
The rich guys at the Klondike were the ones selling supplies to the miners. Heck, I think eggs were selling for a buck each. Wow.
Best way to make money during a gold rush is to mine miners😂.
I read pans and shovels where 15.00. In those days that's a insane amount of money for that stuff
Those were tough people !
my grandfather went to Dawson didn't find gold and ended up in Liverpool on a cattle steamer, met my grandmother never left England again
this is what youtube is about , thanks for the upload.
Glad you enjoy it!
Cool video..thanks for posting
The only limitation is the one's in our heads in mining. Hardest thing I ever done
Excellent.
Thank you! Cheers!
In 1898 the price of gold per ounce was 18.98
An interesting book that fallowed a young european dreamer that headed to san francisco for the 49rs gold
The book is called "empty mansions" the story of H clark and her father the imigrant that had the gold fever