Klondike gold rush


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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How to use Klondike gold rush in a sentence

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

    Owen Clancy's Happy Trail | Burt L. Standish