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The Enterprising Woman Who Built—and Lost, and Rebuilt—a Booming Empire During the Klondike Gold RushGetting to the Klondike gold fields in 1897 required astonishing mettle. The majority of stampeders, as new arrivals were ...
By spring 1898, 20,000 men were camped at the head of the Yukon River waiting for ice to melt so they could continue on to gold fields, still 500 miles away. When gold-seekers finally arrived at ...
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