It read "Gold ... largest Canadian city west of Winnipeg. Gold dust - measured on scales - was one form of currency in the booming town of Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of ...

During the 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush, thousands of wealth-seekers stampeded ... and down the Yukon River to Dawson City and its goldfields. Today visitors can hike the raw, mountain moonscapes ...