Gussie Lamore News Today

An 1896 gold strike along the namesake river in northwestern Canada brought a flood of characters who survive in the written works of Jack London and others.

When the first gold seekers arrived in the Yukon River basin, the land was a harsh seemingly unforgiving wilderness to these newcomers. The tenuous water link by riverboat ceased with freeze-up, and these men were as isolated from friends and family back home as if they were on another planet.

The Klondike Gold Rush captures the spirit of the Frontier West and the unexplored Canadian wilds. There was a promise that anyone could strike it rich

While there may be a Bill Gates very famous at the end of the 20th century and into the 21st, there was an equally notorious character with the same kna...