Recovered Hoards
Bonanza Creek (Klondike)
Gold struck 1896 · Near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
RecoveredThe prize. The Klondike Gold Rush motherlode
Where. Near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
Status. Recovered
Where. Near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
Status. Recovered
The account
Rabbit Creek was nothing, a trickle in the Yukon bush, until George Carmack and Skookum Jim lifted a thumb of gold from its gravel in August of 1896. They renamed it Bonanza by firelight that same night. A hundred thousand stampeders sold all they had to follow, and most arrived to find every foot of ground already staked. The creeks pay gold to this day, and one stretch near Dawson is kept free for anyone with a pan and the nerve to kneel in that cold water.
How it was found
- On 16 August 1896, George Carmack and his Tagish companions Skookum Jim and Dawson Charlie found coarse gold thick in the gravel of what they renamed Bonanza Creek, the strike that set off the Klondike Gold Rush.
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