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EREN F T IF D 52 H DISCOVER RUSH KLONDIKE KATE A A famous for her alluring “Flame RE Dance.” Rockwell ♦ FE N F T HE KLONDIKE GOLD ♦ grew rich as a I T result of her D fame, and left Photo Playing Cards the Yukon a few years 52 later with a bankroll of $150,000 on the arm N ASO A M of Alex Pantages, a JIM waiter who had won UM OK her heart. KO ♠ S Kitty Rockwell used her money to help Pantages establish a chain of theatres up A and down the west coast, but he broke her heart when he married ♠ The most famous of two well- another woman with no warn- known “Klondike Kates,” ing in 1905. Rockwell eventu- Kathleen Eloise “Kitty” ally married a Yukon miner, but Rockwell (1873-1957) trav- she never recovered the elled to the Yukon in fame she had enjoyed as ♦ 1899. She was a dancer ♦ “Klondike Kate.” and vaudeville performer who quickly became A A HOW TO PAN FOR GOLD Skookum Jim Mason (1855-1916) sparked the Klondike Gold Rush when he discovered rich gold deposits in Bonanza Creek, a trib- ♠ K K utary of the Klondike River. A Tagish Indian born with the name Keish, Mason earned the nickname “Skookum,” which means “strong” in the Chinook Jargon, by carrying heavy loads across the A ♣ ♣ Chilkoot Pass in the 1880s. Mason’s brother-in-law, George Carmack, registered the initial claim in his ownnot accept name thatbecause an Indian they thought had made that the other discovery. miners might Skookum Jim and his nephew, Dawson Charlie, ♠ staked a claim on either side of the original one, and the three men shared close to $1,000,000K in Playing Cards with gold from those claims.Y A CIT 52 DIFFERENT IMAGES ON 52 DIFFERENT IMAGES WS ♦ DA Panning was the main tech- sand and silt to be washed over nique used by prospectors the edge. The heavier gold K searching for gold during the dust—and hopefully nuggets— Klondike Gold Rush. Using a are left in the bottom of the pan. ♦ metal pan resembling a large The gold found in the bottom pie pan, a miner scoops up of a pan was called “color,” and some “pay dirt”—sand, dirt and depending on how much there gravel from the creek bot- was, the prospector would tom. After adding some decide whether it was ♣ ♣ water, the pan is then worthwhile to stake a swished around and claim and begin more the population peaked at around, allowing the extensive mining opera- 40,000. 22,000 people K K lighter tions. arrived in one week in the sum- “ONE TON” SUPPLY LIST mer of 1898 alone! A year later, however, the pop- ♦ Dawson City did not exist ulation had fallen to 8,000, Poker Q Q before the Klondike Gold Rush. and by 1902, when the city K Size When gold was discovered in was incorporated, only creeks off of the Klondike River 5,000 people lived there. Superior Print ♥ ♥ in August 1896, a townsite Today, its permanent quickly sprung up at the junc- population is only about Quality tion of Rivers.the Klondike It was and a Yukon boom 2,000. However, 60,000 town in the truest sense tourists ♦ of the word. By June, Q 1897, 4,000 would-beK EE prospectors hadCR arrived K there, andZA one year later, NAN ♣ BO • LIST OF ALL 52 TITLES IS AVAILABLE To ensure that people didn’t starve to death, the Northwest Mounted Police required prospectors carry a year’s worth of food Q • WATERCOLOR ILLUSTRATION IS and supplies—about one ton—when they entered Canadian terri- FEATURED ON THE BACK OF THE tory. Here is a typical stampeder’s grocery list: ♣ CARDS 150 lbs bacon 15 lbs salt 400 lbs flour 1 lb pepper • EYE CATCHING DISPLAY BOX POP-UP 25 lbs rolled oats 75 lbs dried fruit 125 lbs beans 8 lbs baking powder PHOTO 10 lbs tea 2 lbs soda ♥ ♥ 10 lbs coffee 1/2 lb evaporated vinegar claims by prospectors. • SAMPLE DISPLAYER AVAILABLE 25 lbs sugar 2 ounces of compressed It wasn’t the richest stream in Q Q 25 lbs dried potatoes soup EREN the Klondike Gold Rush—that 2 lbs dried onions 1 can of mustard FF T distinction goes to Eldorado I Creek, which flows into it just ♣ D When Skookum Jim Mason Top Quality above the original discovery Plastic Coated and George Carmack discov- claim. But as the site of the orig- ered gold in this creek in 1896, inal discovery. Bonanza Q 52 it was actually called Rabbit Creek flows northwest, Creek, but the name was quick- reaching the Klondike ly changed to Bonanza as a River directly across from reflectionprospectors of the who rush flooded of Dawson City, Yukon. in to stake claims there. ♣ Within two weeks after the initial discovery, its entire 20-mile length had Q been staked into 500-foot Sea to Sky Photography EREN F T IF D 52.

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