a man by the name of Skookum Jim found gold near the Klondike River in Yukon Territory, Canada. This sparked a gold rush the next year as hopeful miners, known as "stampeders," descended upon ...

Panning gold during the Klondike Gold Rush) Gold had been discovered in the Yukon Territory, in a tributary of the Klondike River. News leaked out to the world when 68 new millionaires returned ...

Underwater archaeologists said this week they have found a virtual time capsule of life during Canada’s Klondike Gold Rush: a sunken Yukon River stern-wheeler so preserved that researchers can ...

Skip Sommer The Yukon gold rush really began in early July of 1897 ... “bags of gold” and that the strike along the Klondike River was huge. “MORE THAN A TON OF SOLID GOLD!” ...

The capital city of one of Canada's northernmost territories is a surprisingly modern community of nearly 35,000 year-round residents that offers high-end dining and shopping and serves as the ...

A collection of photographs of the people and landscapes along a rough trail into Alaska's interior, taken nearly 125 years ago.

The Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park unit in Pioneer ... the headquarters building for the Buffalo National River park in Arkansas; and the Park Service’s Archaeological Center ...