It read "Gold, Gold, Gold - A Ton of Gold." Few prospectors made it rich during the Klondike Gold Rush. By the time most gold-seekers reached the region, the richest riverbeds had already been ...

Dan Snow follows in the footsteps of the prospectors of the 19th-century Klondike gold rush. The team finally set about the back-breaking work of mining for gold. Show more Historian Dan Snow ...

Getting to the Klondike gold fields in 1897 required astonishing mettle. The majority of stampeders, as new arrivals were ...