An Alaskan town bears the name of this type of bread, a staple of miners during the Gold Rush
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Top 50 American food | CNN Travel  May 10, 2012 ... Once upon a frontier time, miners (called sourdoughs for surviving on the ... which has been turning out the bread that bites back in the City by the ... filling for vanilla when bananas were scarce during World War II. .... Wild Alaska Salmon .... Liguria region, where many Gold Rush era fishermen came from.
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Gold Rush Names Database - Valdez Museum & Historical Archive  This is the Gold Rush Names Database indroduction page. ... This is especially true for the 1900 census and some mining claims. ... Guiteau Diary = Guiteau, Luther W., Alaska Gold Rush of 1898, Serialized in Freeport, IL's .... (includes Valdez parties) in town, 2/19/98; Chicago party living in tents waiting for boat, 2/26/98;...
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Food of the California Gold Rush | The History Kitchen | PBS Food  Jan 20, 2015 ... What did Forty-niners eat during the California Gold Rush. ... rush towns were first taking root, most food was cooked at the mining ... At the time, ice was so highly sought after that Alaskan glaciers were leased by ... San Francisco's famous sourdough bread became a staple food item during the Gold Rush.
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California Gold Rush - The Life of a Miner  However, they soon discovered that the life of a the miner during the Gold ... in the isolated mining towns, where nature held the upper hand, miners were in...
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The Food Timeline: history notes--pioneer, Civil War, cowboy ...  Tea would have been a light meal (at that time this meal was often called supper) ... fruit pies, cheesecake, puddings (these were the steamed British type, as in plum ..... The foods and recipes of Gold Rush California were as diverse as the ... Sourdough bread was a staple of the forty-niners. ..... Klondike Gold Rush [Alaska]
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Klondike Gold Rush - Wikipedia  The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 .... By the late 1880s, several hundred miners were working their way along the Yukon ... at the height of a series of financial recessions and bank failures in the 1890s.
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Brief History of Seattle - CityArchives | seattle.gov  This village was soon named Seattle, honoring a Duwamish Indian leader named ... Henry Yesler's lumber mill at the foot of Mill Street (now Yesler Way), built in 1853. ... Yukon Territory and in Alaska once again made Seattle an instant boom town. The city exploited its nearness to the Klondike and its already established...
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Yukon Gold Potatoes Information, Recipes and Facts  The Yukon Gold potato, botanically known as Solanum tuberosum, is a ... Its namesake pays homage to the Yukon River and gold rush country and of course ... They can be boiled and mashed or used to make gratins, hash browns and purees. ... It was a Peruvian variety potato with a distinct yellow flesh and rich flavor that...
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The Gold Rush Cocktail  Cold Glass  Mar 15, 2014 ... Jim Meehan ( PDT Cocktail Book ) credits T. J. Siegal for its original ... of the Gold Rush as a bourbon version of the gin-and-honey Bee's Knees, ... The honey is more than a sweetener here, it is an important flavor element; you want to ... I would expect the flavors to reflect the honey sources in each region.
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Alaska State Mineral: Gold (Au)  Access Alaska other state symbols, emblems, mascots, and state Mineral. ... The Gold Rush Era began in 1880 with a major gold discovery by Chief Kowee (an...
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The Story of Betty Crocker - Betty Crocker  In 1921, a promotion for Gold Medal flour offered consumers a pincushion resembling a ... The Washburn Crosby Company, a flour-milling company and largest ... the company was expanding its commitment to consumer service and product ... the country saw her teach George Burns and Gracie Allen how to bake a cake.
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Klondike Gold Rush - Wikipedia  On August 16, 1896, an American prospector named George Carmack, his Tagish ... nephew Dawson Charlie (Ka Goox) were travelling south of the Klondike River. ... they began looking for gold on Bonanza Creek, then called Rabbit Creek, one of the Klondike's tributaries.
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Flashcards - Gold Rush - FreezingBlue.com  May 18, 2011 ... Gold Rush - 3rd grade. ... Name the route that the "forty-niners" took in ... What name from Greek mythology was given to people who traveled to California by ship? ... Greek story in which Jason and his ship "Argo" searched for the Golden Fleece. ... After the gold rush, what became of many mining towns?
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Alaska: state seal -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia  The design incorporates many symbols of the state's economic activities and ... Its Denali (also called Mount McKinley) is higher than any other peak in North ... including the northern lights (aurora borealis), icebergs, railroads, agriculture, fishing ... Frontier, Alaska includes rugged coastlines, massive glaciers, and the tallest...
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History & Culture - Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit National ...  Upcoming Events ... Yesler reciprocated by turning the nascent city into an important lumber ... On July 17th, 1897, the steamship Portland docked in Seattle from St ... the gold strike called Dawson City, soon, though briefly, to become a boomtown. ... gold nuggets on a tributary of the Klondike they named Bonanza Creek.
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Primary documents - Klondike Gold Rush | Gold rush | Pinterest ...  Outfitting for the Trip  UW Libraries .... Miners and prospectors climb the Chilkoot Trail during the Klondike Gold Rush. ..... The strange concoction originated in Hangtown (now known as Placerville), which served ... Gold Country California Gold Rush map showing great detail. ..... South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
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Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 - United States History  The role of Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 in the history of the United States of America. ... From 1901 through 1904, big things happened in Alaska and in Seattle.
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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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Gilman, Colorado - Wikipedia  Gilman is an abandoned mining town in southeastern Eagle County, Colorado, United States. ... Several mining operations had sprouted along Battle Mountain by 1879, the first year of the Colorado Silver Boom. The town of Gilman and ... At one time, the town had an infirmary, grocery store, and bowling alley. The town...
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Keystone Mining History - Keystone  From Gold to Granite The town of Keystone, SD was established in the late 1800's ... Today, it is a tourist town, owing its fame to the carving of Mount Rushmore. ... The discovery of gold led to a flood of prospectors - all hoping to get rich quick. .... he name the mine after his wife, it became, not the Jennie but the Holy Terror.
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Canadian-bred Yukon Gold potato, beloved by cooks ... - National Post  May 9, 2016 ... The Yukon Gold potato might have come from humble roots, but the ... best known for the cross-breeding of a bright yellow wild potato from ... Johnston named his iconic potato after the Yukon River, with its link to the Klondike Gold Rush. ... Now a generation has grown up eating the yellow-fleshed potato...