| The Klondike Gold Rush |
| The Klondike Gold Rush Th'; ReadingText+='e Call of the Wild is set in the Klondike during the 1897 gold rush. Learn more about the gold rush '; ReadingText+='below. On August 17, 1897 gold was discovered in Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondi'; ReadingText+='ke River. By 1898 about 30,000 prospectors had rushed to the area to try their luck at panning for g'; ReadingText+='old. The gold mining towns of Skagway and Dyea quickly began to grow. These were tent ci'; ReadingText+='ties where miners loaded up their supplies for the over 600 miles of trails to the goldfields. Skagw'; ReadingText+='ay was at the head of the White Pass Trail. It was founded by William Moore who had been a steamboat'; ReadingText+=' captain. The White Pass Trail lead out of Skagwag. It was steep for the miners with their equipment'; ReadingText+='. More than 3000 pack animals died on this trail. Dyea was three miles away from the head'; ReadingText+=' of the Taiya Inlet. The Chilkoot Trail lead miners out of Dyea to the gold field. Most '; ReadingText+='miners spent three months packing their equipment up the trail. Once prospectors hauled their equipm'; ReadingText+='ent to the lakes, they built or bought boats to float it downriver to Dawson City. This was approxim'; ReadingText+='ately 560 miles away. By 1898 Dawson City had 18,000 people. By 1900 $22 million dollars '; ReadingText+='worth of gold had been found. In 1900 the gold was getting harder to find in the Yukon, so many of t'; ReadingText+='he prospectors moved to Alaska to look for gold there. Gold production completely stoppe'; ReadingText+='d in 1966. By this time over $250 million in gold had been found. Try the problems to the left with g'; ReadingText+='old measurements. You will need to know the equivalents below to answer some of the questions. Troy weight is the standard measurement for gold. These are the equivalents: '; ReadingText+='1 pound equals 12 ounces 1 pound equals to .3732 kilograms 1 ounce equals to 20 pennywei'; ReadingText+='ght 1 pennyweight equals 24 grains |