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Just wanted to let you know that the real Klondike Kate was actually a woman named Katherine Ryan from Johnvill New Brunswick Canada. The other one used her name later because she was famous. Kate Ryan is so incredibly interesting that she really should have her own video. For example she was the first woman to work with the RCMP..
I really hope you do a video on the real Klondike kate Ryan she was so interesting and it's a shame her name is confused with someone else..She was definitely not a dancer!!
Great stories deserve great telling, and this succeeds beautifully! I grew up in the Yukon and visited all these places, and the Gold Rush still echos through the territory. There are so many other details that could be included in this story. The dredges that took over from the individual prospectors left a strange moon-scape around the Klondike river. Whitehorse was born out of the need to portage around the White Horse Rapids and Miles Canyon on the Yukon river, and the raised bed of the log-railed tramway is still a popular walking trail. While the folks who came with dreams of gold left disappointed, the Yukon is now mostly filled with people who came for a short visit and then forgot to leave, and just being there is the pot of gold. Fantastic Job!
Was born in the Yukon, and have just come back to experience it. Neat to see the effects of the gold rush with your own eyes, it can be like stepping into a different era!
If you love dogs, you love Jack London. Because no author made dogs ever seem more heroic than London did in his stories. I've been repeatedly reading "Call of the Wild" since I was 8 years old... it still gets me teary-eyed in my forties.
True. And the other “treasure “ they discovered was themselves and the knowledge they could handle any adversity life may bring. Something much more valuable than gold.
I worked in Yukon for about 10 years and is Canada's secret paradise. True wilderness and freedom. Well treed, and clean. It still rely's on mining, just not gold.
This is all old history for me. I moved to Whitehorse, Yukon in 1973 when I was 10 years old. Jack London actually was a Rapids Runner for Miles Canyon and the White Horse Rapids. This job he was able to do numerous times per day. The trip began at Canyon City, just up river of Miles Canyon, and ended about five or six miles away below the White Horse rapids. He was one of many men who were qualified rapids runners. This was enforced by the Northwest Mounted Police at Canyon City. Once they reached the slower water below the rapids, they were able to relinquish control back to the neophyte boat owners who most were able to handle most of the remaining water (other than the infamous Five Finger Rapids about half way between Whitehorse and Dawson City.)
@@prepperjonpnw6482 I live in France and to this day the French government knows the importance of the availability of good bread at an affordable standard price (lack of bread did after all spark the french revolution). The quality and price is strongly regulated and readily available. A good size fresh crusty loaf 83 centimes. But they dont do good bacon!
I lived in the small town of Haines, 13 miles by water from Skagway 360 miles by road. Skagway today is a tourist trap with a fantastic railroad and up to four huge cruise ships a day in the summer, that's 10,000 plus people. Then after the summer gold rush, which swells the population with temporary staff up to 2,500 people, it shrinks back into its ghost town reality in October. 900 permanent residents? Truthfully it's more like 700, since many leave for the season.
Georgian Crossroads I plan on taking a cruise to Alaska soon and it stops there...lol. Btw my husband used to live at fort Richardson in Anchorage (I stayed in Georgia, we had just bought a house) and we would go up there all the time.
Visited Skagway in 2009. Took a bus to Carcross and saw many of the points on the Klondike Trail, including Dead Horse Gulch on the spectacular train ride back down that winding grade. The best part was that the crowd had dispersed because the other cruise ship that was there when we arrived, had departed, and our fellow passengers had gotten on board our ship. We had about an hour to see Skagway on our own, before reboarding.
@@mattg7952 I hauled a Volvo excavator to Dawson for Parker from Fairplay, CO. Only ones around to receive the machine was Monica and Tony. Parker was there in Haines.
The ferry ride from Seattle to Skagway and then the train trip to Whitehorse are some of my favorite childhood memories. I thought Skagway was incredible.
One summer as a teenager, I hiked over the Chilkoot pass, the route taken to the Klondike. It is a daunting 60° assent which they did single file in the winter. The mandatory 1,000 pounds of provisions every person had to pack up that murderous assent required multiple trips. Even if you could pack 100 lbs. in each trip, which many did, you would still have to make the assent 10 times just to get your food over the top. One can imagine the soul searching they did after they had finally conveyed the required provisions to the top and were then starting to bring their remaining gear up the same assent. Gold pans, shovels, axes, and other tools were not optional, but other gear and items which sounded like a good idea when departing Seattle or Portland where now cast aside and are still in situ today. The staging area at the base of the Chilkoot pass assent is littered with such artifacts: sewing machines, pianos, and many other items. Standing there amidst these castoffs, really puts you in the mindset of those who brought these items this far and realized that carrying them up one more trip of that torturous 60° assent was just not worth it.
I have been to both Dawson City and Skagway twice. Skagway is beautiful when not overrun by the cruise ship crowd. Dawson City to me is a magical place where history culture and wilderness come together. Wonderfully restored buildings with many national historical sites. If you ever travel to the Yukon Dawson City is a must.
Skagway is a cool little town. I passed through in a small plane from a regional carrier to drop a couple passengers off in the early 2000s before going to our destination. Like many of the airports of coastal towns in Alaska it's an approach over water until the last moment. However, as a 5 year old that type of landing was an entirely new experience for me and I was sure that rather than landing, we were about to crash into the ocean, and I was terrified until the moment we touched down. I've loved the time I've gotten to spend in Alaska.
Though I know the picture you show of London's boat is not a picture of the boat he was actually captain of out in Yukon, that still made me SO happy. Best name for a boat ever. (For anyone wondering: the Snark really was Jack London's own vessel, a ketch; but he didn't build it until around 1906 and he used in in the South Pacific.)
As a Canadian, I enjoyed this presentation very much. I have enjoyed the other videos and this channel & your sister channel. They are great to watch while I am eating my lunch.
This is my new favorite channel. The only improvement I can conceive is on location, but obviously that would impact your accounting. Speaking of on location, I'm heading to Bangkok and northern Thailand soon. I'd love to see a video on something from that part of the world before I go or as soon as I get back! Finally, (thankfully?), there can NEVER BE ENOUGH documentaries on treasure. Found treasure, missing treasure, rumored treasure... teach me and tease me ;)
It's human nature to think that you won't be one of the unlucky ones, but one of those upon whom fortune smiles. Surely nothing bad will happen to you, will it? This mentality is both a blessing and a curse. It's the source of mankind's amazing ability to triumph in the face of adversity and at the same time the cause of so much needless misery.
I like it, part of the journey was along the Yukon River which was quite deadly as well. US kids got Oregon Trail to play, but Canadian kids got Klondike Rush.
Nice work. Alaska and the Klondike want to kill anyone that doesn't respect it - even today it is not to be underestimated. Your portrayal of the human cost of the gold rush is very much appreciated.
Could you do a video going in depth on the uranium ore rush in the Midwest I feel it’s a topic that few ever cover and I feel it’s right up this channels alley
Uranium fever has done and got me down Uranium fever is spreadin' all around With a Geiger counter in my hand I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land Uranium fever has done and got me down
I am a middle school teacher and I regularly use your Geographics/Biographics videos in my classroom. Thank you for making these videos that are informative, but also entertaining and relatively brief!
I’m from South East AK and have been to Skagway many times, hiked the Chilkoot Trail twice(highly recommend) and have been Dawson City. I loved the video but just wanted to mention the Chilkoot pass is nicknamed the Golden Stair, the trail holds the worlds most miserable camp named Happy Camp and that Juneau AK also saw a gold rush nearly 20 years earlier and held 1 of the largest gold mines in the world at that time.
Dawson city is one of my favourite places on earth!!!! When Corona came marching through Canada I ran away up there for three months and lived in - 35 in a cabin in the bush better than lockdown in the city any day of the week
I loved Dawson City. The Top of the World highway between it and Boundary (and Chicken - a town of "25 nice people and 1 old grump"), Alaska, is something I'd highly recommend seeing. Some of the story that got bypassed - C.J. Berry, who became one of the lucky to make it rich, made it a habit to leave outside his cabin door a bucket of gold nuggets and a bottle of whiskey, with a little sign on it reading, "Help yourself." According to one theory, the town of Nome came from a map on which the scribbled question "? Name" marked its location - a cartographer later presumed the scribblings were meant to say "Cape Nome." Legend has it that one of the prospectors that went there from Dawson apparently did so by bike (the Yukon is usually frozen over in winter), making him the first bicyclist in Alaska. Fairbanks sprang up about five years after the Nome gold rush, and was one of the last rushes in that area of the world. The find that caused the town to spring up is still celebrated each year. Lots of stories to tell, many already told not just by Jack London, but also Robert Service, among a few others whose literature was made famous by their participation in the Rush. And of course, there is the slang term "sourdough," given to a type of bread that was popular in the gold rush - as later applied to the miners, the term came to mean "someone who is soured about staying in the North, but lacking the dough to get out."
I grew to love the poetry of Robert Service who wrote so much about both the Klondike and WW I . I immediately thought " To Dawson Town came Percy Brown from London on the Thames".
steve cannon There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee.
Great video. I've been to Dawson City 4 times. If you drive south about 40 kilometers or 24 miles you will come up to the Dempster Highway. It's a treacherous 500 mile trek thru a gravel and shale road which is a trucking route to the peel river that you cross on a ferry into Inuvik, Northwest Territory. A magical drive on scenic beauty for sure. On the way just 70 kilometers into the Dempster you will find the Toombstone Mountains. A freakish scene as you look at the the sunlit peaks at 2 am on chilly June day. Next year I go back as I do my 5th Alaska-Yukon trip.
Coming from a student doing a project about this historical event, this is actually a grand video to listen to and learn from, EVEN AS BACKGROUND NOISE!
Perhaps you could expand on this topic with the Australian gold rushes? particularly the Kalgoorlie Gold Rush started by Paddy Hannan and Dan Shea at roughly the same time. It even lead to the famous and ambitious Kalgoorlie pipeline project engineered by CY O’Connor. There was also a famous mine rescue that had a train break the record journey time from Perth to bring diving equipment to rescue a miner trapped by floods.
You may also recognize Jack London as the man who wrote White Fang, and The Call Of The Wild among other novels. Probably my favourite author besides Robert Mason. His books talk at length about what life was like back then living in the freezing wilderness.
Imagine the excitement the first thousand felt when they where headed into the wilderness, knowing a lot of gold had already came out of it. And then the desperation and misery when they ran out of food and money.
The smartest "Mined the miners". I was at Skagway last September and took the train up to White Pass. The trail is still visible and very, very daunting.
I moved to the yukon in the 80s and worked i the gold mines on the indian river. It was a life altering experience.. there was no medium, you either loved the yukon or you hated it.. if you loved it, which I did, it was hard.. if you hated it, as many did, it was hell.
The Canadian winter is so varied like the massive country itself. To say "Canadian Winter" is an incredible generalization. People, who don't live in Canada, do not realize it can be very gentle and warm in British Colombia and often more rain than snow in "The Maritimes". It is very cold in Manitoba and variable in Ontario. The Canadian Winter is miserable in Newfoundland but summers are mostly great within this intoxicating landscape. If you like variety Canada is the place for you. And by the way Summer beaches/sands are not coated with folks who should keep their clothes on. You can still find a beach for your family or yourself. Now in a crowded world that is truly impressive.
I just spent my summer in Dawson City to start gold mining and it took all summer to get legal to do so and now I don t think that I can get back to even put a shovel in the the ground.Had one hell of a time going there from Ontario and doing the trip and would do it again.
James Michener's book Alaska contains a good deal of the history. Skagway and Dawson really were hellholes. Permafrost made the wooden buildings sink 2 feet every Spring, playing havoc with the structures. There was a bar where patrons relieved themselves at the back in a piled up bank of snow on which the urine froze to the height of a person. Goodness what it was like when the thaw arrived.
I'm saying this at the start, you BETTER mention the toe shot in Dawson City. Was a fluke that I went up to the Yukon for a holiday. Air cadet contest I won. My mom and I are both history nerds. Even at my surliest teen years I still enjoyed it.
Great video, I think any time there is opportunity for such wealth it draws people on a massive scale. In an area where the weather is so readily able to cause death I would imagine only the people who had some experience with survival as we would call it had any chance at all. Just an extremely unforgiving place and the levels of desperation would make it extremely dangerous aside from the weather.
Soapy Smith would recognize much of Skagway as it's been largely preserved and restored as the Klondike National Historic Park, and the wilderness all around it is spectacular. C'mon up and see us sometime; and as a guide there I'd be happy to give you the inside scoop. Cheers.
Loving this channel!! How about some episodes about Castles such as Tower of London and Balmoral as well as castles in the rest of Europe please. Since a high % of Americans are descendants of Europeans these should be popular. Also, various locations in the U.K. that were important to the Industrial revolution would be good.
I was lucky enough to see a gold nugget from the Klondike gold rush that my school bus driver got from his grandfather and it was awesome . Not fifty pounds but was nice size .
While in 20 minutes, you did a good job of touching on the gold rush, the book, Klondike, by Pierre Berton tells a much better detailed account of the whole event.
Interesting little side note from that book. He mentions that one of the cars that made it around the world in the 'Great Race' 1908 (remember the Jack Lemmon movie?) The Italian Zust, ended up in Dawson city and was used for a couple of decades for pulling sleds out to the still active gold fields. It was abandoned in the 1920's, salvaged as a pile of rusted parts in the 70's and finally restored to running condition by expert collectors in Ladysmith BC where it now resides. I provided some of the lumber (yes lumber) used in the restore.
One of the sad things that they went through was Scurvy . It happened because of there chronic diet of Bacon , Beans and Bread . It's Sad and Ironic that these prospectors didnt realise all they had to do was boil some pine needles into Tea , a couple of cups a day would've cured and prevented future outbreaks of Scurvy due to pine needels containing a high source of Vitamin C . Not to mention the ubiquity of Pine Trees in their general vicinity .
For anyone in the US, there is a fantastic museum in Seattle, WA that contains a day's worth of exhibits on all the info presented in this video. A really great experience.
The definition of being on a fool's mission...There's a museum in Seattle's pioneer square that has US Forrest Server guides, And John Nordstrom made so much money selling supplies that he formed the Nordstrom Dynasty...
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Just wanted to let you know that the real Klondike Kate was actually a woman named Katherine Ryan from Johnvill New Brunswick Canada. The other one used her name later because she was famous. Kate Ryan is so incredibly interesting that she really should have her own video. For example she was the first woman to work with the RCMP..
I really hope you do a video on the real Klondike kate Ryan she was so interesting and it's a shame her name is confused with someone else..She was definitely not a dancer!!
Nobody mentioning Scrooge McDuck and his years there worries me about the new gen.
Very sad, indeed.
That's the only reason I clicked on the video but you beat me to it. Also his Girlfriend Goldie still lives there.
Ok boomer
The Beagle Boys erased his name from the history books
@@Boz196 edgy content
Great stories deserve great telling, and this succeeds beautifully! I grew up in the Yukon and visited all these places, and the Gold Rush still echos through the territory.
There are so many other details that could be included in this story. The dredges that took over from the individual prospectors left a strange moon-scape around the Klondike river. Whitehorse was born out of the need to portage around the White Horse Rapids and Miles Canyon on the Yukon river, and the raised bed of the log-railed tramway is still a popular walking trail.
While the folks who came with dreams of gold left disappointed, the Yukon is now mostly filled with people who came for a short visit and then forgot to leave, and just being there is the pot of gold.
Fantastic Job!
Was born in the Yukon, and have just come back to experience it. Neat to see the effects of the gold rush with your own eyes, it can be like stepping into a different era!
Jack London was one of the authors that got me to actually enjoy reading.
intzbk1 this whole video reminds me of “White Fang.”
If you love dogs, you love Jack London.
Because no author made dogs ever seem more heroic than London did in his stories. I've been repeatedly reading "Call of the Wild" since I was 8 years old... it still gets me teary-eyed in my forties.
I'm here because I just listened to Call of the Wild and what a beautiful new interest! This is so cool to learn about all this!
Jack London was a drunk and you must question his Novels. Alcohol killed him in his early 30s.
He and a failed test are the reason I'm hear. I'm getting extra credit to cover the points I lost.
Thankyou for talking about the effect on and the First Nations people involved
The real treasure was the friends they made along the way.
😂😂😂 my god this killed me ☠️ You’ve won the internet.
I LOLed in the middle of the night. 😂
Best quote ever. Till you realize that so some of those men ate their friend
True.
And the other “treasure “ they discovered was themselves and the knowledge they could handle any adversity life may bring.
Something much more valuable than gold.
The real treasure was the stories. Tappan Addney and Jack London are the testament to that.
I worked in Yukon for about 10 years and is Canada's secret paradise. True wilderness and freedom. Well treed, and clean. It still rely's on mining, just not gold.
Relies*
Born and raised in the Yukon. Us yukoners call it “the” Yukon ;)
@@alane4487 Tell Tony Beets I said hello.
This is all old history for me. I moved to Whitehorse, Yukon in 1973 when I was 10 years old.
Jack London actually was a Rapids Runner for Miles Canyon and the White Horse Rapids. This job he was able to do numerous times per day. The trip began at Canyon City, just up river of Miles Canyon, and ended about five or six miles away below the White Horse rapids. He was one of many men who were qualified rapids runners.
This was enforced by the Northwest Mounted Police at Canyon City.
Once they reached the slower water below the rapids, they were able to relinquish control back to the neophyte boat owners who most were able to handle most of the remaining water (other than the infamous Five Finger Rapids about half way between Whitehorse and Dawson City.)
The stupid jingle, "What would you do for a Klondike bar," suddenly became super dark....
😂😂
Then they have the nerve to put a bear on it.
:)))) Omg now I want one though...
Super dark chocolate coated outside with delicious ice cream inside.
When it comes to chocolate… the darker the better!
"Bacon, beans, and bread."
You're trying to convince me of how hard the prospectors had it, and all I can think is, "they had bacon?"
Basically my diet
It’s Canadian bacon though
@@cantfixasandwich4672 oh, well i understand the desperation now
Sounds good to me! Lol
Nowadays you can barely afford good bacon and bread is 4 bucks a loaf!
@@prepperjonpnw6482 I live in France and to this day the French government knows the importance of the availability of good bread at an affordable standard price (lack of bread did after all spark the french revolution). The quality and price is strongly regulated and readily available. A good size fresh crusty loaf 83 centimes. But they dont do good bacon!
I'm loving the Geography channel. Keep up the good work.
I lived in the small town of Haines, 13 miles by water from Skagway 360 miles by road. Skagway today is a tourist trap with a fantastic railroad and up to four huge cruise ships a day in the summer, that's 10,000 plus people. Then after the summer gold rush, which swells the population with temporary staff up to 2,500 people, it shrinks back into its ghost town reality in October. 900 permanent residents? Truthfully it's more like 700, since many leave for the season.
Georgian Crossroads I plan on taking a cruise to Alaska soon and it stops there...lol. Btw my husband used to live at fort Richardson in Anchorage (I stayed in Georgia, we had just bought a house) and we would go up there all the time.
Haines AK? Where Parker Schnabel is from?
Visited Skagway in 2009. Took a bus to Carcross and saw many of the points on the Klondike Trail, including Dead Horse Gulch on the spectacular train ride back down that winding grade. The best part was that the crowd had dispersed because the other cruise ship that was there when we arrived, had departed, and our fellow passengers had gotten on board our ship. We had about an hour to see Skagway on our own, before reboarding.
@@mattg7952 I hauled a Volvo excavator to Dawson for Parker from Fairplay, CO. Only ones around to receive the machine was Monica and Tony. Parker was there in Haines.
The ferry ride from Seattle to Skagway and then the train trip to Whitehorse are some of my favorite childhood memories. I thought Skagway was incredible.
One summer as a teenager, I hiked over the Chilkoot pass, the route taken to the Klondike.
It is a daunting 60° assent which they did single file in the winter. The mandatory 1,000 pounds of provisions every person had to pack up that murderous assent required multiple trips. Even if you could pack 100 lbs. in each trip, which many did, you would still have to make the assent 10 times just to get your food over the top.
One can imagine the soul searching they did after they had finally conveyed the required provisions to the top and were then starting to bring their remaining gear up the same assent. Gold pans, shovels, axes, and other tools were not optional, but other gear and items which sounded like a good idea when departing Seattle or Portland where now cast aside and are still in situ today.
The staging area at the base of the Chilkoot pass assent is littered with such artifacts: sewing machines, pianos, and many other items. Standing there amidst these castoffs, really puts you in the mindset of those who brought these items this far and realized that carrying them up one more trip of that torturous 60° assent was just not worth it.
Imagine how many bicycles are under the much at Dyea. Many people showed up from the city with absolutely no clue about true wilderness.
I have been to both Dawson City and Skagway twice. Skagway is beautiful when not overrun by the cruise ship crowd. Dawson City to me is a magical place where history culture and wilderness come together. Wonderfully restored buildings with many national historical sites. If you ever travel to the Yukon Dawson City is a must.
His voice is so comforting
Skagway is a cool little town. I passed through in a small plane from a regional carrier to drop a couple passengers off in the early 2000s before going to our destination. Like many of the airports of coastal towns in Alaska it's an approach over water until the last moment. However, as a 5 year old that type of landing was an entirely new experience for me and I was sure that rather than landing, we were about to crash into the ocean, and I was terrified until the moment we touched down. I've loved the time I've gotten to spend in Alaska.
Though I know the picture you show of London's boat is not a picture of the boat he was actually captain of out in Yukon, that still made me SO happy.
Best name for a boat ever.
(For anyone wondering: the Snark really was Jack London's own vessel, a ketch; but he didn't build it until around 1906 and he used in in the South Pacific.)
As a Canadian, I enjoyed this presentation very much. I have enjoyed the other videos and this channel & your sister channel. They are great to watch while I am eating my lunch.
This is my new favorite channel. The only improvement I can conceive is on location, but obviously that would impact your accounting.
Speaking of on location, I'm heading to Bangkok and northern Thailand soon. I'd love to see a video on something from that part of the world before I go or as soon as I get back!
Finally, (thankfully?), there can NEVER BE ENOUGH documentaries on treasure. Found treasure, missing treasure, rumored treasure... teach me and tease me ;)
It's human nature to think that you won't be one of the unlucky ones, but one of those upon whom fortune smiles. Surely nothing bad will happen to you, will it? This mentality is both a blessing and a curse. It's the source of mankind's amazing ability to triumph in the face of adversity and at the same time the cause of so much needless misery.
Hey, there was a depression. You could freeze and starve almost anywhere.
I like it, part of the journey was along the Yukon River which was quite deadly as well. US kids got Oregon Trail to play, but Canadian kids got Klondike Rush.
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Nice work. Alaska and the Klondike want to kill anyone that doesn't respect it - even today it is not to be underestimated. Your portrayal of the human cost of the gold rush is very much appreciated.
Could you do a video going in depth on the uranium ore rush in the Midwest I feel it’s a topic that few ever cover and I feel it’s right up this channels alley
Uranium fever has done and got me down
Uranium fever is spreadin' all around
With a Geiger counter in my hand
I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land
Uranium fever has done and got me down
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Ethan Allen best paint ever! lol
We here in Hereford call this place Scagway but for a different reason.
I’m so happy this exists as I live in the Yukon and it’s great to see our out of the way territory get its day in the sun on this channel
I am a middle school teacher and I regularly use your Geographics/Biographics videos in my classroom. Thank you for making these videos that are informative, but also entertaining and relatively brief!
I’m from South East AK and have been to Skagway many times, hiked the Chilkoot Trail twice(highly recommend) and have been Dawson City. I loved the video but just wanted to mention the Chilkoot pass is nicknamed the Golden Stair, the trail holds the worlds most miserable camp named Happy Camp and that Juneau AK also saw a gold rush nearly 20 years earlier and held 1 of the largest gold mines in the world at that time.
Dawson city is one of my favourite places on earth!!!! When Corona came marching through Canada I ran away up there for three months and lived in - 35 in a cabin in the bush better than lockdown in the city any day of the week
I loved Dawson City. The Top of the World highway between it and Boundary (and Chicken - a town of "25 nice people and 1 old grump"), Alaska, is something I'd highly recommend seeing. Some of the story that got bypassed - C.J. Berry, who became one of the lucky to make it rich, made it a habit to leave outside his cabin door a bucket of gold nuggets and a bottle of whiskey, with a little sign on it reading, "Help yourself." According to one theory, the town of Nome came from a map on which the scribbled question "? Name" marked its location - a cartographer later presumed the scribblings were meant to say "Cape Nome." Legend has it that one of the prospectors that went there from Dawson apparently did so by bike (the Yukon is usually frozen over in winter), making him the first bicyclist in Alaska. Fairbanks sprang up about five years after the Nome gold rush, and was one of the last rushes in that area of the world. The find that caused the town to spring up is still celebrated each year. Lots of stories to tell, many already told not just by Jack London, but also Robert Service, among a few others whose literature was made famous by their participation in the Rush. And of course, there is the slang term "sourdough," given to a type of bread that was popular in the gold rush - as later applied to the miners, the term came to mean "someone who is soured about staying in the North, but lacking the dough to get out."
love you man thanks so much for all your work and this a a great new channel!
I live near Dawson City! The adventure continues.......
I grew to love the poetry of Robert Service who wrote so much about both the Klondike and WW I . I immediately thought " To Dawson Town came Percy Brown from London on the Thames".
steve cannon There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Not sure why but the part about the guys having to build their own boats absolutely cracked me up. Great video as usual Simon 👍
Really like this series! Keep em' coming!
Great video. I've been to Dawson City 4 times. If you drive south about 40 kilometers or 24 miles you will come up to the Dempster Highway. It's a treacherous 500 mile trek thru a gravel and shale road which is a trucking route to the peel river that you cross on a ferry into Inuvik, Northwest Territory. A magical drive on scenic beauty for sure. On the way just 70 kilometers into the Dempster you will find the Toombstone Mountains. A freakish scene as you look at the the sunlit peaks at 2 am on chilly June day. Next year I go back as I do my 5th Alaska-Yukon trip.
I challenge anyone to find a more gorgeous part of the continent than Tombstone.
The mule inserted was hilarious! LOL
Makes me remember the comic: Uncle Scrooge - The king of the Klondike by Don Rosa
Is this where "what would you do for a Klondike bar" comes from? I thought a Klondike bar was ice cream but turned out its a gold bar.
SPL-316 Aaaaaarg! You beat me to it!!!
Original
@@grilledleeks6514 and you think that's original?
It's an ice cream bar named after a gold bar
Can't wait for more Alaskan history someday!
The Klondike, the Yukon, and the 40-mile country are amazing. Come to Dawson City for the summer solstice You will love it.
Excellent script Simon! I love the focus you chose to put on the people rather than the actual place.
Coming from a student doing a project about this historical event, this is actually a grand video to listen to and learn from, EVEN AS BACKGROUND NOISE!
I just got 3 ads with no skip options before the video began. All of them a minute or more and none I could skip. Is this the new normal?
Perhaps you could expand on this topic with the Australian gold rushes? particularly the Kalgoorlie Gold Rush started by Paddy Hannan and Dan Shea at roughly the same time. It even lead to the famous and ambitious Kalgoorlie pipeline project engineered by CY O’Connor. There was also a famous mine rescue that had a train break the record journey time from Perth to bring diving equipment to rescue a miner trapped by floods.
LOVE THIS. I worked in Skagway for a summer, and this is spot on. The only person I wish you had mentioned it Harriet "Ma" Pullen.
What we really need is a video detailing the horrific events that lead to the eventual demise of the fabulous name ‘Skookum’!!!
You may also recognize Jack London as the man who wrote White Fang, and The Call Of The Wild among other novels. Probably my favourite author besides Robert Mason. His books talk at length about what life was like back then living in the freezing wilderness.
Great telling of an epic story.!
I follow all of your channels. Really amazing videos. Keep it up
Love living in interior Alaska. The history is almost as incredible as the beauty of it
Imagine the excitement the first thousand felt when they where headed into the wilderness, knowing a lot of gold had already came out of it. And then the desperation and misery when they ran out of food and money.
In case you wondered: *$5000 per day in 1897 equates to $162,165 /£665,000 per day in 2021.*
The smartest "Mined the miners".
I was at Skagway last September
and took the train up to White Pass.
The trail is still visible and very, very daunting.
Should cover Deadwood SD and the Black Hills, some good history there :)
I moved to the yukon in the 80s and worked i the gold mines on the indian river. It was a life altering experience.. there was no medium, you either loved the yukon or you hated it.. if you loved it, which I did, it was hard.. if you hated it, as many did, it was hell.
The Canadian winter is so varied like the massive country itself. To say "Canadian Winter" is an incredible generalization. People, who don't live in Canada, do not realize it can be very gentle and warm in British Colombia and often more rain than snow in "The Maritimes". It is very cold in Manitoba and variable in Ontario. The Canadian Winter is miserable in Newfoundland but summers are mostly great within this intoxicating landscape. If you like variety Canada is the place for you. And by the way Summer beaches/sands are not coated with folks who should keep their clothes on. You can still find a beach for your family or yourself. Now in a crowded world that is truly impressive.
Excellent documentary! Thanks for sharing!
You should also look at Barkerville and the BC gold rush also a very good story
Whoever got a 64 stack of gold blocks could leave the server.
from the Yukon and love this
George Rivard the Yukon, ah yes you must be bc you added the “the”😂
Updoted just for your description of the tent city.
Being human and your correct life was indeed rough but we preserve throughout the ages GREAT VIDEO BROSKI
"Oh there's no place like Nome for the holidays!"
I just spent my summer in Dawson City to start gold mining and it took all summer to get legal to do so and now I don t think that I can get back to even put a shovel in the the ground.Had one hell of a time going there from Ontario and doing the trip and would do it again.
Thanks for the reply but I love it up there and would like to get back there before the permit runs out lol.
Great episode
I just wanted to say i like your new chanel and great video
Really been enjoying the channel so far, would you mind doing an episode on Iwo Jima?
Skagway is a great little town to visit - highly recommend it!
Modern day Dawson looks really nice. In today's work from home situation, looks like a good place to park your chair and enjoy nature.
Awesome to find this gem as I live in Dawson now - we still are just as obsessed with the gold
“Kill All The Horses Trail” 😂
Zeus Knobblewacker A bit of “comedy gold”
@@clutchkman a nugget one might say
Thank you Jesus!!!! Another Karl free video!!!!
10 internet point for the Calais Jungle + Fyre Festival analogy.
This video has given me a new appreciation for the accuracy of the game Yukon Trail, a sister game to Oregon Trail
James Michener's book Alaska contains a good deal of the history. Skagway and Dawson really were hellholes. Permafrost made the wooden buildings sink 2 feet every Spring, playing havoc with the structures. There was a bar where patrons relieved themselves at the back in a piled up bank of snow on which the urine froze to the height of a person. Goodness what it was like when the thaw arrived.
I'm saying this at the start, you BETTER mention the toe shot in Dawson City.
Was a fluke that I went up to the Yukon for a holiday. Air cadet contest I won. My mom and I are both history nerds. Even at my surliest teen years I still enjoyed it.
I love Biographics. Simon is best when he's not being himself.
Damn Simon, you're prolific! Ive really come to enjoy your channels.
This video was more than twice as long as it should be..... RIP
Great video, I think any time there is opportunity for such wealth it draws people on a massive scale. In an area where the weather is so readily able to cause death I would imagine only the people who had some experience with survival as we would call it had any chance at all. Just an extremely unforgiving place and the levels of desperation would make it extremely dangerous aside from the weather.
great video an story!
"THE" Yukon. "THE" Klondike. You would NEVER say it without THE
ya as someone who lives in the territory, i've only heard people who don't live here insist on dropping 'the' from the name
Really enjoyable one this one
Glad you liked it :)
Pretty sweet to see something close to home. Gold rush trail starts about 20 minutes west of me
Soapy Smith would recognize much of Skagway as it's been largely preserved and restored as the Klondike National Historic Park, and the wilderness all around it is spectacular. C'mon up and see us sometime; and as a guide there I'd be happy to give you the inside scoop. Cheers.
Could you do a piece on the history of the Iditarod? Great content!
Yes yes yes!!!! Great suggestions!!!
Loving this channel!!
How about some episodes about Castles such as Tower of London and Balmoral as well as castles in the rest of Europe please. Since a high % of Americans are descendants of Europeans these should be popular.
Also, various locations in the U.K. that were important to the Industrial revolution would be good.
I was lucky enough to see a gold nugget from the Klondike gold rush that my school bus driver got from his grandfather and it was awesome . Not fifty pounds but was nice size .
I took the train in Skagway AK and it is UNREAL the way they built they railway.
I loved the video very much.
While in 20 minutes, you did a good job of touching on the gold rush, the book, Klondike, by Pierre Berton tells a much better detailed account of the whole event.
Interesting little side note from that book. He mentions that one of the cars that made it around the world in the 'Great Race' 1908 (remember the Jack Lemmon movie?) The Italian Zust, ended up in Dawson city and was used for a couple of decades for pulling sleds out to the still active gold fields. It was abandoned in the 1920's, salvaged as a pile of rusted parts in the 70's and finally restored to running condition by expert collectors in Ladysmith BC where it now resides. I provided some of the lumber (yes lumber) used in the restore.
One of the sad things that they went through was Scurvy . It happened because of there chronic diet of Bacon , Beans and Bread . It's Sad and Ironic that these prospectors didnt realise all they had to do was boil some pine needles into Tea , a couple of cups a day would've cured and prevented future outbreaks of Scurvy due to pine needels containing a high source of Vitamin C . Not to mention the ubiquity of Pine Trees in their general vicinity .
For anyone in the US, there is a fantastic museum in Seattle, WA that contains a day's worth of exhibits on all the info presented in this video. A really great experience.
Excellent.
thank you
Nobody:
YT comments: "what would you do for a Klondike bar?"
This comment didnt even make sense. Use your low iq memes correctly, silly
I got Yukon Trail flashbacks while watching this.
The definition of being on a fool's mission...There's a museum in Seattle's pioneer square
that has US Forrest Server guides, And John Nordstrom made so much money selling
supplies that he formed the Nordstrom Dynasty...