the Klondike
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The town is located on the former site of Tr’ochëk, a hunting and fishing camp where the Klondike and Yukon rivers meet.
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
About a half-hour before his lunch break one June morning, Travis Mudry was operating an excavator and digging through permafrost in the Klondike gold fields of the Yukon in Canada.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2022
“It was me that took all the Klondike bars.”
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
