1. Klondike Gold Rush
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 and The Klondike Gold Rush 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 and Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896.

2. Only a handful of the 100,000 people who left for the Klondike during the gold rush

3. By 1899 telegraphy stretched from Skagway, Alaska to Dawson City, Yukon, allowing instant international contact. In 1898, the White Pass and Yukon Route railway began to be built between Skagway and the head of navigation on the Yukon. When it was completed in 1900, the Chilkoot trail and its tramways were obsolete. Despite these improvements in communication and transport, the rush faltered from 1898 on. It began in summer 1898 when many of the prospectors arriving in Dawson City found themselves unable to make a living and left for home. For those who stayed, the wages of casual work, depressed by the number of men, fell to $100 ($2,700) a month by The world's newspapers began to turn against the Klondike gold rush as well. In the spring of 1898 the Spanish- American War removed Klondike from the headlines., go to the Klondike became a popular phrase of disgust. Klondike-branded goods had to be disposed of at special rates in Seattle.