In 1896 George Carmack, Skookum Jim & Tagish Charlie found gold in this territory
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George Carmack discovers Klondike gold - Aug 16, 1896 ...  On this day in History, George Carmack discovers Klondike gold on Aug 16, 1896. ... the last great western gold rush, but it was pure chance that he found it. ... failing to make a significant strike, he headed north into the isolated Yukon Territory. ... On this day in 1896, Carmack and two Tagish friends were salmon fishing on...
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Klondike Kings - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (U.S. ...  It all started with the discovery of gold on Rabbit Creek in August of 1896. ... Keish-Skookum Jim; George Washington Carmcack; Kate Carmack ... Together Keish, George Carmack, Kate Carmack, and Dawson (Tagish) Charlie worked what ... in Carcross, Yukon Territory where he spent the winters trapping and hunting.
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Gold discovered in the Yukon - Aug 16, 1896 - HISTORY.com  In 1896, another prospector, Robert Henderson, told Carmack of finding gold in a ... two Native American companions, known as Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie. ... Large-scale gold mining in the Yukon Territory didn't end until 1966, and by that .... George Carmack's discovery of gold in that region sparked the last great...
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Klondike Gold Rush - Wikipedia  On August 16, 1896, an American prospector named George Carmack, his Tagish wife Kate Carmack (Shaaw Tla), her brother Skookum Jim (Keish), and their...
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Who Discovered the Klondike Gold?  This faction found its champion in the person of Robert Henderson, a Canadian ... Yukon and Klondike Rivers he met Carmack, Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie. ... had the good fortune to be in the territory soon after gold was discovered and ... Carmack, Jim and Charlie did visit Henderson at his claim on Gold Bottom, but...
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WELCOME TO JUNEAU! - traveljuneau.com  along the shores of Gastineau Channel. As you walk through ... tors Richard T. Harris and Joseph Juneau to investigate. The pair reached Gastineau. Channel in August 1880 and sampled gravel in what is now known as Gold. Creek. ... Gulch and found the mother lode in Silver ... the territory of Alaska, Juneau became a.
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Gold discovered in the Yukon - Aug 16, 1896 - HISTORY.com  While salmon fishing near the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory on this day ... His lucky discovery sparks the last great gold rush in the American West. ... became rich off his discovery, leaving the Yukon with $1 million worth of gold.
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George Pilz - Alaska Mining Hall of Fame  George Pilz, as the first professional mining engineer in the new territory of Alaska, ... stationed with the U.S. Army in Sitka, had rich gold-quartz specimens from the Stewart and ... Alaska Mining Hall of Fame inductees Joe Juneau and Richard T. Harris. ... The samples were almost certainly from the Gastineau Channel area.
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New Mexico Mining History - Albuquerque Gem & Mineral Club  Also, I would like Xerox copies of any old mining documents (New Mexico) to .... Santa Fe's historical fame and geographical position made it a center into which flowed .... 1888 - Coal mines operating in Gallup area and Cerrillos district. .... List includes apthitalite ... 1950 - Haystack Mountain uranium discovery near Grants.
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Gold discovered in the Yukon - Aug 16, 1896 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Gold discovered in the Yukon on Aug 16, 1896. ... August. 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21 ... Robert Henderson, told Carmack of finding gold in a tributary of the Klondike River. ... Rabbit Creek was renamed Bonanza, and even more gold was discovered in...
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Off to the Klondike! | American History Lives at American Heritage  For years the whole negotiation was labelled Seward's Folly, and it was not until gold ... The, first gold strike was made in 1896 on the Klondike, River, a tributary of the .... desks, newsboys hawked papers that detailed the good fortune of the sixty-eight ... The traditional way into the interior of Alaska and the Yukon was the...
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jeopardy/1574_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  WAY OUT WEST | Legend says that in 1859 he bought the Nevada lode now named for him for a bottle of whiskey & a blind horse | Henry Comstock. right: Kevin.
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Focus on the West - AP U.S. History Topic Outlines - Study Notes  Under this act, farmers could claim as much as 160 acres in the Great Plains by ... Mining was a new frontier that everyone was interested in. ... The final major strike of gold and silver in Colorado happened in the early 1890s at Cripple Creek. ... During the height of the mining boom, towns sprang up near veins of ore.
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Colorado Gold Rush - Explore Old West Colorado  The Colorado gold rush began in 1859, ten years after gold was discovered in California. At this news of a new strike, thousands headed for the gold fields of Colorado to make their fortune. ... new gold rush. "Pikes Peak or Bust" was the catch phrase of the time. ... The miners would not leave their stake to get these staples.
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Discovery of Gold, by John A. Sutter - 1848  California Gold Rush Chronology 1846  1849 ... when the gold was discovered at Coloma, where I was then building a saw-mill. The contractor and builder of this mill was James W. Marshall, from New Jersey. In the fall of 1847, after the mill seat had been located, I sent up to this place Mr. P. L. Wimmer with his family,...
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Colorado Magazine Vol. 48 No. 1 (Winter 1971) - History Colorado  when, during his inaugural address in March 1881, he vowed .... A spokesman for various Colorado and far western interests, he ...... in the mercantile business in California from 1853 to 1859.33 ..... the governor in the famous "city hall war." In the ...... See Minnie Hall Murphy, "Pike's Peak or Bust: The Colorado Pioneers of.
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Jeopary Questions page 1856 - WORLD GEOGRAPHY - TriviaBistro ...  WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Important mining centers in this range include Leadville, Colorado & Kimberley, British Columbia  POP MUSIC: In June 1995 he...
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Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 - United States History  Two weeks later, gold was found on Eldorado Creek, a tributary of Bonanza. ... Building began at the new site of Dawson City, Yukon Territory. ... arrived in Dyea and Skagway, Alaska or steamed directly up the Yukon River to Dawson City. ... by the 17 August 1896 discovery of placer gold on Rabbit (later Bonanza) Creek,...
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Tombstone's Cemetery: Boothill | HistoryNet  6/12/2006  Wild West. During the wild and lawless years of the settling of the West, some sort of graveyard ... John Hicks did not live to see Tombstone reach its peak. .... The latter was the business name of a prostitute known as Little Gertie, the Gold ... The five of them have one common epitaph that states they were legally...
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The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine - Skeptoid  Jan 29, 2013 ... The Superstition Mountains are perhaps best known as the setting for one of the enduring mysteries of the American West: the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. ... hints to its location, and thousands of men have searched for it ever since. .... say that as many as 80 Dutch Hunters have died since, searching for the...
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Treasure Tales: Colorado: A General History of Colorado  The first Europeans to penetrate the area now known as Colorado were ... On November 27, Pike (with 3 companions) attempted to climb Pikes Peak but after 3 ... In the summer of 1820, an expedition commanded by Major Stephen H Long and ... The first placer gold discovery in South Park was along Tarryall Creek in July,...