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Gold Strikes and Rushes in Chronological Order
1848 - First gold discovery Russian River on Kenai Peninsula	1895 - Sunrise district on the Kenai Peninsula	1905 - Kantishna hills
1861 - Stikine River near Telegraph Creek, British Columbia; Wrangell	1896 - Klondike strike, Bonanza Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada	1906 - Innoko
1872 - Cassiar district in Canada, Stikone headwaters country	1896 - Council on Seward Peninsula	1907 - Ruby
1872 - Near Sitka	1898 - Anvil Creek near Nome in Atlin district	1908 - Iditarod
1874 - Windham Bay near Juneau	1898 - Hope and Sunrise on Turnagain Arm	1913 - Chisana
1880 - Gold Creek at Juneau	1898 - British Columbia	1913 - Marshall
1886 - Fortymile discovery	1899 - Nome beaches	1914 - Livengood
1887 - Yakutat areas and Lituya Bay	1900 - Porcupine rush out of Haines
1893 - Mastodon Creek, starting Circle	1902 - Felix Pedro, Upper Goldstream Valley in Fairbanks area

 

Nugget Trivia

More Trivia

The largest gold nugget ever found in Alaska was discovered near Nome.  The nugget, weighing 155 try ounces, was found September 29, 1903, on Discovery Claim on Anvil Creek, Nome District.  The nugget was 7 inches long, 4 inches wide, and 2 inches thick.

Klondike - Hammered Water The word "Klondike," after 1898 one of the most famous place names in the history of the northland, comes from tron-diuck, which means "hammered water".  It refers to stakes hammered into the bed of the Klondike River at its mouth, where Han Athabascan people annually set their salmon traps and nets.  The nets and weirs would be anchored to stakes laboriously driven into the bed of the river.  Tron refers to the hefty hammer stones used to pound in the stakes.  There are fewer than two dozen Han speakers living today, but this word of theirs, "Klondike," lives on in history because of its association with the lure of northern gold.  - Ann Chandonnet, The Alaska Hertiage Seafood Cookbook

• Klondike Special Report an account of Seattle and the Alaska Gold Rush

• Ghost of the Klondike Goldrush  Great Resource Site

• Gold Rush Women

• Valdez Gold Rush

• Valdez Gold Rush Images

• Valdez, Prince William Sound, & Copper River Gold Rush Timeline

• Klondike Gold Rush  (Skagway)

• The Great American Gold Rush with chronology and links

• The Land of Glittering Dreams with photographs and journals of people who were there

• PBS Gold Rush Special 

• California History  with information on Gold Rush 

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