the Klondike
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Its people, the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, were displaced after the Klondike gold rush brought nearly 17,000 new settlers.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024
“It’s like being in the Klondike now,” says Dalhousie ecologist Hugh MacIntyre, referring to the gold rush that brought prospectors to remote northwestern Canada in the 1890s.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 30, 2023
Among its notables were Old West lawman Wyatt Earp, who served as temporary marshal for 10 days while he traveled to the Klondike, and naturist John Muir.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023
“I thought it was a baby buffalo in the beginning,” said Travis Mudry, who was operating an excavator in the Klondike gold fields of the Yukon in June.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2022
“It was me that took all the Klondike bars.”
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
