On this day in history, prospectors found gold in the Klondike. Today you don't have to go digging to buy gold as an investment. Here's what you need to know about paying taxes on gold.

Even Klondike co-discoverer Kate Carmack gets only two brief references in Pierre Berton’s iconic history: Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899. Yet one Klondike woman defied enormous ...

Pierre Berton's Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899 won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1958.

Tales from the Klondike (1898) -- The great river of Alaska (1885) -- Eskimo whaling (1891) -- Hunting the big game of ... (1903) -- The fish of the Alaska coast (1908) -- Over the Chilkoot Pass to ...

There is gold in the mountains of the Yukon. More than 100 years after the Klondike Gold Rush, prospector Shawn Ryan, and his wife, Cathy Wood, are leading the charge on a new gold rush in the ...

Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush between 1896 and 1899 (Rex Features) Your support helps us to tell the story. Read more. Support Now.

Evan Nelson's arrival in Yukon this week couldn't have been better timed. It was Monday — Discovery Day, the annual holiday in Yukon that commemorates the 1896 discovery of gold in the Klondike.

In August 1896, gold was discovered near Dawson City in the Canadian province of Yukon. By July the following year, ships carrying tons of gold from the goldfield arrived in San Francisco and Seattle.

Tr’ondëk-Klondike stands out as a very rare occurrence and provides remarkable evidence of growing colonial influence within a concentrated timeframe – from the construction of the first commercial ...

Miners first put Yukon on the map. During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896, they trekked over the mountains from Alaska, first to Whitehorse then to Dawson City - they're still digging out nuggets.