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Klondike Gold Rush

1896 – 1899
SettlerNorth America

A hundred thousand stampeders chasing gold up the Chilkoot to the creeks where Dawson rose overnight.

The gold thinned by 1899 and the crowds chased the next strike to Nome, Alaska; the diggings passed to corporate dredges and Dawson dwindled to a few thousand.

Borders in 1898 · drawn from 2 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Klondike Gold Rush — the shape you scrub through changes in 1896 · 1898.

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