The Klondike or Clondike is a region of the Yukon Territory in northwest Canada, east of the Alaska border. Yukon (ˈjuːkɒn is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three territories. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Alaska ( Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the Yukon River from the east at Dawson. The Klondike River is a Tributary of the Yukon River in Canada that gave its name to the Klondike Gold Rush. The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America.
The Klondike is famed because of the Klondike Gold Rush, which started in 1897 and ended the following year. The Klondike Gold Rush, infrequently referred to as the Yukon Gold Rush or Alaska Gold Rush, was a frenzy of Gold rush Immigration to and for Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Gold has been mined continuously in that area except for a hiatus in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Gold (ˈɡoʊld is a Chemical element with the symbol Au (from its Latin name aurum) and Atomic number 79 Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
The name "Klondike" actually evolved from the Gwich'in word thron-dyuk, which means "Hammer River". Early gold seekers found it difficult to pronounce the Inuit word, so "Klondike" became the result of this poor pronunciation.
Many people died during the Klondike Gold Rush. 1 million planned to try and find gold. 100,000 actually set out to do so. By the time people reached Dawson City 60,000 people had died. Of the 40,000 at Dawson City only 4,000 found gold. The gold searchers washed many goldnuggets out of the Rivers. For this, they took a kind of plate or net and stood in the cold water. Many of them died of the flu. In the sand and soil the river washed into the men's plates, some very tiny goldnuggets were found. Another method to get gold was digging into the soil. The Goldrush was the origin of the "claim war" which resulted in the deaths of several "sourdoughs" or inexperienced miners.
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