Klondike Gold Rush: Stunning Photos Capture Prospectors Trying to Strike Gold, 1890s

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The idea of striking it rich led over 100,000 people from all walks of life to abandon their homes and embark on an extended, life-threatening journey across treacherous, icy valleys and harrowing rocky terrain.
Most of these stampeders did not get rich, but a good number decided to stay in Alaska and Yukon afterwards, quickly transforming its population.
Between 1897 and 1907 prospectors founded more than fifty gold-mining camps in various parts of Alaska, some of which, such as Nome and Fairbanks, grew into major towns.
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[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

Yes, as a boy I really liked the novels about the Klondike Gold Rush. Great adventures! Exciting action! But as a boy, I didn't realize that most of the people in Alaska back then just wanted to get the gold quickly and then settle down and live without adventure and action in the eastern states of the USA. :)