Klondike gold rush
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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
Filson sold clothing, boots and blankets to Klondike gold rush prospectors leaving Seattle in the 1890s.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Two vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2019
The next year, Earp chased the Klondike gold rush to Alaska where he found success as a saloon owner.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2015
Undoubtedly that man was Hiram Hill's father–the parent who had been mysteriously missing ever since the first Klondike gold rush!
From Owen Clancy's Happy Trail or, The Motor Wizard in California by Burt L. Standish
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