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Klondike gold rush
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:Klondike rush.
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the great stampede of gold-seekers to the Yukon beginning in 1897.
Quotations
1912
The little trees had been cut with strokes from one side only as white men chop, and we guessed that we were upon the spot where our last white predecessors had made camp in the year of the Klondike rush.
1965
. . . Mrs. MacCleave was a young girl at the height of the Klondike gold rush.