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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 Robert Henderson to look for gold on Bonanza Creek (called Rabbit Creek at the time), one of the Klondike River’s tributaries. ....