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Chilkat Indian woman carries the miner's items for $1. Seattle Times: Klondike Special Report.
Seattle Times Company, 1997. Web. 29 Nov. 2015.
<http://old.seattletimes.com/special/klondike/weary_klondikers.html>. In this photo, the
weary travelers take a rest on the Chilkoot Pass. A Chilkat Indian woman is carrying the
travelers' supplies for $1 per pound. This shows that the gold rush was potentially
beneficial to the natives as well.
Chilkoot Pass. 1897. Library and Archives Canada. C-5142. Historica Canada. Web. 1 Nov.
2015. <http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/klondike-gold-rush/>. This
photograph shows a group of travelers climbing through Chilkoot Pass. We can use it to
underscore the extreme difficulties the miners faced.
"Cultural Impact of the Klondike Gold Rush." National Park Service. National Park Service U.S.
Department of the Interior, n.d. Web. 23 Nov. 2015.
<http://www.nps.gov/klgo/learn/education/classrooms/gold-rush-impact.htm>. This
compact article is good for getting both background knowledge about the events leading
up to the Gold Rush and for information about how the Gold Rush affected native people
in the area. It is a very credible source as it is published by National Park Services and
the U.S. government for educational purposes.
Cummings, Richard. The White Pass Chronicle, News from the Klondike. 17 July 1897.
CU006875. The Golden Stairs: History of the Klondike Gold Rush. Web. 1 Jan. 2016.
<http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/klondike/golden-stairs-photo-credits/>. This image
shows how important gold was to the United States at the time of the Gold Rush and the
excitement when it was found.

Gates, Michael. "Klondike Gold Rush." Historica Canada. Historica Canada, 19 July 2009. Web.
19 Sept. 2015. <http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/klondike-gold-rush/>.
This document gives a concise summary of the Klondike Gold Rush. It includes a lot of
numerical statistics and dates that are useful to determine the sequence in which
important events occurred
George Carmack. 1 Apr. 1898. The Canadian Encyclopedia. Web. 4 Jan. 2016.
<http://tc.gov.yk.ca/archives/klondike/en/discovery.html>. This is an image of George
Carmack, the first man to discover gold in the Klondike. Carmack became very famous
after his discovery.
Gold-Digger: A Klondike Prospector in the Late 1890s. 1897. Daily Mail. Web. 4 Jan. 2016.
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030860/OKlondike-Stand-rush-gold-worth450m-tiny-Irish-village.html>. This photograph shows a man digging for gold in the
Yukon. It shows us some of the impacts that the Gold Rush had on the prospectors.
"The Golden Stairs: History of the Klondike Gold Rush." The Golden Stairs: History of the
Klondike Gold Rush. Discovery Communications, n.d. Web. 19 Sept. 2015.
<http://klondike-history.discovery.com/>. This webpage covers multiple aspects of the
Klondike Gold Rush including the actual mining process and the growth of boom towns.
It also includes a large number of primary sources.
"Gold Rush." AlaskaKids. U of Alaska Anchorage, 2000-2015. Web. 3 Oct. 2015.
<http://www.alaskakids.org/index.cfm/Know-Alaska/Alaska-History/Gold-Rushes>. This
website gave important dates that events occurred and details about the events that led up
to the Klondike Gold Rush such as the California Gold Rush

Gray, Charlotte. Gold Diggers. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2010. Print. This book gave us
perspective on what it must have been like to go to the Yukon during the Gold Rush by
giving the points of view of different individuals.
"The Han Athabascans." LitSite Alaska. LitSite Alaska, 2000 - 2015. Web. 19 Sept. 2015.
<http://www.litsite.org/index.cfm?section=Digital-Archives&page=People-of-theNorth&cat=Native-Peoples&viewpost=2&ContentId=2651&pg=349&crt=2>. This
source gives information about the native people who lived in the Klondike region before
the prospectors arrived and their role in the Gold Rush. It also describes what happened
to the Han people after the Gold Rush ended.
A Han Village Upriver from Eagle. N.d. University of Alaska. Fairbanks. UAF-1994-70-333. Lit
Site Alaska. Web. 1 Nov. 2015. <http://www.litsite.org/gallery/index.cfm?fa=postphoto&photo=1478&ContentId=2651>. This photograph gave us an image of what the
native Han villages looked like. The caption provided us with information on how the
Canadian government has effected native tribes.
"Impact of the Klondike Gold Rush." Alaskaweb.org. alaskaweb.org, 2014. Web. 1 Oct. 2015.
<http://alaskaweb.org/mining/klonimpact.html>. This site had a lot of information on the
impacts of the Klondike Gold Rush, particularly the environmental impacts such as
deforestation and soil erosion. It also gave information on how the native people were
affected.
"The Klondike Gold Rush." University of Washington Libraries. U of Washington, n.d. Web. 1
Oct. 2015. <https://content.lib.washington.edu/extras/goldrush.html>. This site gave a
brief summary of the Klondike Gold Rush with many useful dates and notable

occurrences. It also provided us with the names of important people involved in the Gold
Rush.
Klondike Gold Rush; Settlers Bound for the Klondike. 1897. Encyclopedia Britannica. Web. 1
Nov. 2015. <https://www.britannica.com/event/Klondike-gold-rush/images-videos>. This
picture shows how Klondike settlers would have dressed and what their temporary camps
looked like.
Klondike Outfits at Dyea. 1898. Photograph. Teaching With Documents: Migration North to
Alaska. National Archives. 200(S)-BR-1-A5; Album Volume 1-A. This shows where the
miners would start to the northern gold fields in Alaska. There are many materials and
goods being showed being sold, primarily fabrics and food.
Klondikers Buying Miners' Permits. 21 Feb. 1898. British Library. Historica Canada. Web. 1
Nov. 2015. <http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/klondike-gold-rush/>.
This picture shows how gold fever affected the people.
La Roche, Frank. The difference in geography from then and now. National Park Service. U.S.
Department of the Interior, n.d. Web. 29 Nov. 2015.
<http://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?id=D023175B-1DD8-B71C07F81B57BE3773B7>. This photo shows the geographical challenges faced by miners
back in the Klondike Gold Rush would be far different than the challenges people would
face today if they were to use the same paths as the Gold Rush miners.
Manual for Gold Seekers (front Cover). N.d. U of Washington Libraries. U of Washington,
Seattle. Special Collections AWC0067. Yukon Government Department of Tourism and
Culture. Web. 29 Nov. 2015. <http://tc.gov.yk.ca/archives/klondike/en/discovery.html>.
This manual, written for prospective gold seekers, shows that many who sset out to mine

in the Klondike had no idea awhat they were doing and had to rely on manuals for
knowledge.
Robb, Jim. "Dead Horse Gulch." Yukon News. Yukon News, 12 Jan. 2009. Web. 1 Jan. 2016.
<http://www.yukon-news.com/news/dead-horse-gulch>. This site had useful information
on how the White Pass Trail received its nickname of Dead Horse Gulch.
The San Francisco Examiner. 18 July 1897. The Klondike Gold Rush: Discovery. Web. 4 Jan.
2016. <http://tc.gov.yk.ca/archives/klondike/assets/images/discovery/full/examiner.jpg>.
This image shows how the public's impression of Alaska changed from a frozen
wilderness to "a land lined with gold" in a short time.
Seattle Businessmen Took Advantage of the Klondike Gold Rush. 1897. MOHAI. Seattle. History
Link. Web. 31 Dec. 2015. <http://www.historylink.org/db_images/hos22.JPG>. This
picture shows that businesses were able to make a profit off of the Gold Rush by selling
supplies to unprepared miners. This was one way that the Gold Rush helped the economy.
"Teaching the Gold Rush, Part 2: How the Alaska Gold Rush Saved America." Alaska Tour Jobs.
Holland America Line, n.d. Web. 3 Oct. 2015. <http://www.alaskatourjobs.com/blog/iheart-alaska/teaching-the-gold-rush-part-2-how-the-alaska-gold-rush-saved-america/>.
This site explained the economic benefits of the gold rush. It also has several diagrams
that help interpret shipping routes and economic growth.
Wells, E. Hazard. Magnificence and Misery : a Firsthand Account of the 1897 Klondike Gold
Rush. Ed. Randall M. Dodd. Garden City: Doubleday, 1984. Print. This book is a
compilation of newspaper articles filed to the Cincinnati Post by reporter E. Hazard Wells
as he traveled through the Klondike to cover the Gold Rush. It gives a detailed view of
the Gold Rush as it truly was and offers plenty of little-known but interesting material.

"Women in the Klondike." Klondike News [Dawson] 1 Apr. 1998: n. pag. Alaska State Library.
Web. 29 Nov. 2015.
<https://education.alaska.gov/temp_lam_pages/library/goldrush/archives/npapers/4_1_98
.htm>. The article "Women in the Klondike" shows that not just men benefited from the
Klondike Gold Rush. Women played an important role and the Klondike Gold Rush
helped to show this and support feminism.
The Yukon District of Canada. 1897. University of Washington Libraries. University of
Washington. Web. 1 Nov. 2015.
<http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/collections/exhibits/klondike/case3>.
This map gives an overview of the geographical locations of important sites in the Yukon.