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
In 1903, Seattle was a rapidly expanding city built on the timber industry with a booming population fueled by the Klondike Gold Rush.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
“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
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