Group 5--Who Came to the Klondike?

Group 5: Who Came to the Klondike?
What kinds of people came to the Klondike? What motivated them to go? What did they do when they got there, in addition to those who went to the gold fields?

• Links from Links to the Past
  • The National Park Service
    • Dyea (NOTE: List of professions and businesses at the bottom of the page.)
  • National Postal Museum: As Precious As Gold: The Alaska/Klondike Gold Rush
    • Americans Abroad
    • Extraordinary Women
  • Library of the State of Alaska
    • What was a Gold Miner Like?
    • Woman's Standpoint: What to Take and What to Leave Behind
    • How Did the Gold Rush Change the Population?
    • Letter from Mae in Dawson N.W. Territory about "the condition of things from a woman's standpoint" to home. Aug. 25, 1898
    • Women in the Gold Rush
    • Children of the Gold Rush
      • China Joe and Other Foreign Miners
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