Tent city at Dawson, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898

• Main Author: Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Dogs; Camps; Gold rushes; Rivers; Yukon; Bonanza; Klondike River; Dawson
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7043

Prospectors had hunted gold in the Klondike region since the 1880s. In August 1896, three men made a strike on Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River. The strike was so large that they renamed the creek Bonanza. By the end of 1898, 40,000 people had poured into Dawson, Yukon Territory, to h...