![]() The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's description of "a ton of gold" actually touched off the stampede. The world did not learn of the strike until some of these newly rich pioneers reached the West Coast by steamship in mid-July 1897. Miners already on the scene staked every creek (or "pup") in the Klondike and Indian river watersheds, including the fabulously rich Eldorado. The gold rush that followed was confined that first year to the Yukon interior. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Klondike Gold Rush was touched off by the 16 August 1896 discovery of placer gold (the claim was staked on August 17) on Rabbit (later Bonanza) Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River, by George Washington Carmack and his Indian brothers-in-law, "Skookum Jim" and "Tagish Charley." This accidental find was the result of a tip by a Canadian prospector, Robert Henderson, now credited as co-discoverer. ![]()
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