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1. What mistake did Robert Henderson make when he talked to George Washington Carmack along the Klondike River?

He insulted Carmack's Indian in-laws. He called them a racist name. Carmack never told Henderson about his discovery.

2. Describe life in America during the 1890s.

The Panic of 1893 made life hard. There were few jobs, and people were hungry. Many people worked in sweatshops. Money was taken from banks and buried in back yards.

3. What was the dollar value of the Alaskan gold on the steamship Portland ?

$28,000,000 ($600 million in today's dollars.)

4. What affect did Erastus Brainerd’s public relations campaign and the Alaskan gold rush have on the city of Seattle?

It turned Seattle into the dominate city in the Northwest; Portland, Oregon, dropped to second place.

5. Why was Skagway such a dangerous town?

It was run by Soapy Smith and his gang.

6. Why was the Chilkoot Pass so difficult for the miners to cross?

The last 1,000 feet were very steep. In the dead of winter, the miners had to make many trips to the top to get their ton of goods over it.

7. Why was the White Pass Trail called a “nightmare”?

So many horses were killed or worked to death that it was given the nickname "The Dead Horse Trail."

8. What rule did Sam Steele of the Mounties enforce at the top of the pass at the Canadian Border?

Each miner had to carry up a year's worth of supplies.

9 What was the cause of the death for 60 men?

A spring avalanche on Palm Sunday 1898.

10. What difficult task broke up many friendships on the shores of Lake Bennett?

Building a boat by hand.

11. List several hardships people experienced in Dawson?

Some hardships were scurvy, typhoid fever, food shortages, flooding, big fires, and extreme cold. Some ate their dogs because they could not feed them.

12. How did Belinda Mulroney get rich?

She sold supplies to miners, built hotels, and bought mining claims. She "mined the miners."

13. What cruel fact did Harvey Condon learn when he arrived at the Klondike?

He was too late. All of the paying mining claims were already staked before he left Seattle.

14. How many found gold? How many struck it rich?

4,000 found gold and 400 struck it rich. Most lost their fortune within a few years of striking it rich.

15. What lessons about life did the trip to Alaska teach the stampeders?

"You can do anything." "They could dream any dream and make it happen."