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Learn about the Klondike Gold Rush and Great Seattle Fire of 1889 by visiting Seattle’s Arctic Club Hotel and Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park visitors center and by taking a tour at Beneath the Streets.
Pioneer Square, subterranean tours and a glimpse of the Klondike Gold Rush turn a weekend getaway into a historic adventure.
This weekend will mark 125 years since the arrival of the steamship PORTLAND with its cargo of gold on the Seattle waterfront
Prospectors with supplies at the Chilkoot Pass. In front: The Scales, left: Golden Steps. c. March 1 Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17359082 The Klondike Gold Find It all started on August 16, 1896, when George Carmack, an American prospector looking for gold by the Klondike River in Northwestern Canada near the Alaska border, discovered gold. He had been working the area accompanied by his Tagish wife Kate (Shaaw Tláa), her brother Shookum Jim (Keish) and their nephew Dawson Charlie (K̲áa Goox). George was following a suggestion from Canadian prospector Rob...