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Klondike gold rush

  1. A rush of thousands of people in the 1890s toward the Klondike gold mining district in northwestern Canada after gold was discovered there.


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Undoubtedly that man was Hiram Hill's father–the parent who had been mysteriously missing ever since the first Klondike gold rush!

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