• Artist rendering of Pioneer Square during Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit

    National Historical Park Washington

HARD DRIVE TO THE KLONDIKE: PROMOTING SEATTLE DURING THE GOLD RUSH Historic Resource Study for Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Chapter Three

Reaping the Profits of the Klondike Trade

 

Equipment and Services

Among the goods advertised were asbestos-lined Yukon stoves, Klondike insect-proof masks, and frost extractors.

 

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CHAPTER THREE
An "All-Klondike" Town |Outfitters | Transportation |
"A Hot Town" and "A Very Wicked City" | Population and Economic Growth |
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

Did You Know?

Did You Know the Canadian border at the summit of the Chikoot Pass

Many stampeders thought the Klondike Gold Fields were located in Alaska. Actually the gold placer deposits were in the Yukon Territory, in Canada.