Klondike, Yukon Totally Explained

Everything about Klondike Yukon totally explained

The Klondike or Clondike is a region of the Yukon Territory in northwest Canada, east of the Alaska border. It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the Yukon River from the east at Dawson.
   The Klondike is famed because of the Klondike Gold Rush, which started in 1897 and ended the following year. Gold has been mined continuously in that area except for a hiatus in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
   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 by the flue. 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 was the reason of death of goldsearchers because of claimtheaves.

Further Information

Get more info on 'Klondike Yukon'.

External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

<a href="http://klondike__yukon.totallyexplained.com">Klondike, Yukon Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.