USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -By August many of the stampeders had started for home, most of them broke. The next year saw a still larger exodus of miners when gold was discovered at Nome, Alaska. The great Klondike Gold Rush ended as suddenly as it had begun. Towns such as Dawson City and Skagway began to decline.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dawson City, Yukon is the heart of the world-famous Klondike Gold Rush. On August 16, 1896, three Yukon “Sourdoughs”: George Carmack, Dawson Charlie, and Skookum Jim found gold on Rabbit Creek (now Bonanza Creek) a tributary of the Klondike River.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Klondike Gold Rush, often called the Yukon Gold Rush, was a mass exodus of prospecting migrants from their hometowns to Canadian Yukon Territory and Alaska after gold was discovered there in 1896.

Detailed explanation-4: -Although the Klondike® Bar has its roots in America, its name rings Canadian. It’s rumoured that the bar was named after the Klondike River in Canada’s west central Yukon Territory, which was the famous site of the 1890s Gold Rush.