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Klondike
City Rises on 'Golden Wave'
From The Seattle Times 1896-1996 Centennial series
By Sharon Boswell and Lorraine McConaghy

Ghosts of the Klondike Gold Rush - (dead link)
Includes anecdotes, images, a brief history, and an interest database called Pan for Gold

Golden Dreams: The Quest for the Klondike - (dead link)
"...retraces the path to the Klondike Gold Fields from Washington State in 1897 and 1898 through the eyes and lens of photographer Asahel Curtis. Using images, period objects and artifacts, multimedia exhibits and interactive storytelling techniques..."
- Washington State Historical Society

HistoryLink.org
The Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History

  • Klondike Gold Rush Historical Database
    "This database contains photographs, newspaper clippings, documents, contemporary Seattle business names and locations, vessel sailing dates and passenger lists related to the 1897-1898 Klondike Gold Rush, which Seattle served as a major gateway for supplies and prospectors."

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park - (dead link) Alaska

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Seattle Unit - (dead link)
"Find out about early Seattle and the Klondike Gold Rush"

Klondike Ho! 1897-1997
Klondike Gold Rush Centennial
By Alan Taylor

The Klondike Weekly
"Its purpose is both to enable us to more clearly direct you to the Klondike material that is already on the 'Net, and to post the large number of high-quality articles arriving almost daily in our mailbox from other historian/writers."

Threads of Gold:   Women in the Klondike - (dead link)
"...explores the wide range of experiences of both Alaska Native and pioneer women during the Alaska-Klondike gold rush era. Women played many important roles in the dramatic development of the north which was a result of the gold rush."
University of Alaska, Fairbanks

California
Gold Fever
The PBS Online page

"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
"...consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century."
American Memory, Library of Congress

California Pioneer Project
"The California Pioneer List (CPL) is a list of settlers to California who migrated to or were born in California prior to 1880 (included in the 1880 California Census) and obtained from those sent (e-mailed) directly from individuals doing genealogical research."
- By the California GenWeb Project

Museum of the City of San Francisco


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