The Gold Rushes

GOLD!

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  Cape Nome & Anvil Creek NHL

  Cape Nome and Anvil Creek National Historic Landmark

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  Chilkoot Trail and Dyea NHL

  From 1897 to 1899, thousands of prospectors and "boomers" used the Chilkoot and White Pass Trails

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  Kennecott Mines NHL

  Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark

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  Skagway & White Pass NHL

  An Alaskan frontier mining town, situated on a prime route to the Upper Yukon Valley and Klondike gold-bearing regions

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  Fort William H. Seward NHL

  Fort Seward was the last of 11 military posts established in Alaska during the territory's gold rushes between 1897 and 1904

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  Eagle Historic District

  Fort Egbert was established as a control station and headquarters for northern Alaska in 1889

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  Leffingwell Camp Site NHL

  From 1907 to 1914, Ernest de Koven Leffingwell's base camp on the arctic coast of Alaska

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  Nenana National Historic Landmark

  During the first half of the 20th century, the Yukon was the steamboat superhighway of the north

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  George C. Thomas Memorial Library NHL

  Thomas Memorial Library is the site of a 1915 meeting between U.S. Government officials and Alaska Natives negotiating land claims