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Gold rush site of the 1890s
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klondike
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Klondike is a 17-episode half-hour American Western / Northern television series starring Ralph Taeger and James Coburn that aired on NBC . The series premiered on October 10, 1960 and ran until February 13, 1961, facing stiff competition from The Danny ...
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Hermann Pilz had been a German mining engineer who had come north with the Klondike stampede and stayed to start the first coal mine in Kachemak Bay, which had led to a timely investment in the Alaska Steamship Line, which evolved into a shipping company that specialized in getting freight to every community in Alaska not on the road system.
Six months later, when the sun came back and the Yukon awoke, they buckled on their heavy moneybelts and journeyed back to the Southland, where they yet live and lie mightily about the Klondike they never saw.
The crude moral worth of the Klondike woman might be all that her two defenders had alleged, and indeed I felt again that strange little thrill of almost sympathy for her as one who had been unjustly aspersed.
He went on to tell that a prospector named George Washington Carmack, along with two Indians named Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie, found the gold nugget that started it all while panning for gold at the junction of the Yukon and Klondike rivers on August 17, 1896.
And there’s gold, Captain, more gold than in a thousand Klondikes and a hundred South Africas.
He deals them out on his patch of table like a senescent codger playing Klondike on his meal tray.