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The other two sides of the board represents a town where players can invest in (buy up) the various services (hotels, supply stores, casinos, saloons, etc.), along the lines of Monopoly, that will fleece the gold panners who subsequently land on these spaces. The winner is the player with the most cash on hand when the gold runs out (i.e. when ...
Soapy Smith. Jefferson Randolph " Soapy " Smith II (November 2, 1860 – July 8, 1898) was an American con artist and gangster in the American frontier, and ultimately the Klondike . Smith operated confidence schemes across the Western United States, and had a large hand in organized criminal operations in both Colorado and the District of Alaska.
The Klondike Gold Rush [n 1] was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896; when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors .
June 30, 1976. Welcome sign. Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is a national historical park operated by the National Park Service that seeks to commemorate the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s. Though the gold fields that were the ultimate goal of the stampeders lay in the Yukon Territory, the park comprises staging areas for the ...
Seattle, Washington, United States. Nationality. Irish-American. Occupation (s) Entrepreneur, hotel owner, bank founder. Belinda Mulrooney (1872–1967) was an entrepreneur and purportedly the "richest woman in the Klondike". [1] She made one fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush, lost it, and amassed a second, which lasted most of the rest of her ...
Dalton Trail. The Dalton Trail is a trail that runs between Pyramid Harbor, west of Haines, Alaska in the United States, and Fort Selkirk, in the Yukon Territory of Canada, using the Chilkat Pass. It is 396 km (246 mi) long. Originally, the Chilkat group of Tlingit controlled the trail, which they used for trade with the Athabascan people of ...
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. Klondike Mines Railway. Klondike River. Klondike Trail. Klondike, Yukon.
Underground mining. Most of the gold was below the surface. The miners first had to thaw the permafrost before they could dig. [2] A fire burning all night was used to soften the ground. This would then thaw to a depth of about 14 inches and the gravel could be removed. The process was repeated until the gold was reached.