The Klondike Gold Rush 

Sir, your granpa, is a true adventurer.

11 mo ago

He was a great man

Surprised he didn't freeze to death. I can't imagine living outdoors in the Yukon searching for gold back then. Would be something like -40 or worse temperatures all day long

My Grandfather was also in the Klondike Gold Rush. He was friends of the poet Robert Service. So Robert wrote a poem about him. It's called the ballad of hard luck Henry. With the money he earned from gold mining he started a construction company to build this new town called Vancouver.

What Gold Rush was your granduncle involved in?

@@r.c.salyer3652 The earliest Klondike rush. Name was Charles Raymond. Apparently, he along with others fell in love (lust) with Klondike Kate.

Good story thx for sharing

@@brucesteele3052 What did Kate do for a living? was she a gold buyer?

was she a cheap bar ho?

Thanks.

A stepping back in time experience like none other.😉

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The Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek British Columbia through the Yukon Territory and on to Fairbanks Alaska was completed by the US Army and the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1942 as a binational WW2 military Highway. The Canadian portion was turned over to the Canadian government in 1946 and was opened to the public during 1948. The Alaska Highway has almost constantly been under construction ever since with straightening and grade realignment over muskeg, rivers and terrain obstacles. Now totally paved (primarily 'chip sealed' except through built-up areas and population centres) gravel patches during the summer construction season are still featured (& were even more extensive during the mid 70s). During the early 60s it remained primarily a two lane gravel road where carrying at least two spare mounted tires was not just wise but a virtual necessity (in that era of bias ply nylon cord passenger and light truck tires). Until at least the 80s to most North American kids, it probably felt practically like being on a pioneer trail to the Yukon Gold Rush! 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🌎 🇺🇲 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦

what a great story .. thank you really enjoyed it

Glad you enjoyed it.

You have some amazing family history.... could you write an e book?

What a great story, especially about Jack London. Thanks

@@jacquelinemarie1078 Well then you might want to read this book: Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution by Frank McLynn | Aug 5, 2020; I retired in Mexico (you have more rights and liberties than in USA) and it's like living in the "Good Ole Days", like 1st part of last Century in USA - takes minimum 10 years off your life! There are stories in there that make Fiction seem ridiculous, and so much funny stuff going on in the heat of the battles. Tom Mix, the Silent Cowboy in Movies before the talkies actually got his horsemanship and gun-slinging skills while working a couple of years as a Volunteer Calvaryman in Villa's Army in the Desert of Northern Mexico. My Dad met Tom Mix on the set by the Railroad Tracks in Glendale where they were making movies. My Dad and his brother would skip school (Glendale, High - Glendale CA.) and go make $5.00 ( that too a lot of money then) as extra's on the sets. There at Glendale High, my Dad was friends with Marion Davies (John Wayne). John was like the captain of Boxing Club and my Dad was on the wrestling team. Most people don't know it but John Wayne became the Student Body President (according to my Dad), as he was quite popular way back then.

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Yeah...can you imagine today's "woke " youth actually WORKING that hard? I can't......they want everything GIVEN to them. You can thank the Liberals and Democraps for that.

agreed 100%

Oak Island, just one more foot deeper over here, turn in next week to see what they found.

@@jakebrakebill lolololololol

Who still watches History Channel?

@@spaceghost8995 I do every once and a while, to remind myself why I don't.

Jack London was there on site and found all his stories in the saloons.

These stories are awesome n Jack Londons couple books on the Yukon I've read myself enchanting stories I live by Detroit n I've always dreamed of visiting there myself Keep dreaming n I do hope your able to visit there and share your story with Your Father Peace n Love

Your dad would also love the poems of Robert Service. Same era, same location, same theme, just raw and awesome reading

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing!

​@@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia Can someone please tell me the piano piece playing at 1:50 to 1:58?

I’d love to hike that trail one day and mimic the journey to Dawson city. I became fascinated with this gold rush reading Jason’s Gold by Will Hobbs as a teenager. The wonder and adventure was so gripping. That journey would be a nice window into American ambition and grit

Enjoy the trip! Thank you for watching.

I think tpur talking about the "OREGON TRAIL"

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It sucked, and most men did not find gold.

Having gone to that part of alaska I couldn't imagine doing this.

​@@meganmclaughlin9056many probably died in the cold trying to get there and staying. I seen the list of items required by the govt to even be there and it's not enough for 3 months.

It should bee on every' one's bucket list. It's so much bigger, grander than anywhere else. People there life a lot harder, lover a lot harder, fight a lot harder drink a lot harder. Everything is more in the extreme. To think they log in the SE mainly in the winter - gives you an idea what it's like. Try and spend a month at least to see it's main parts and people.

@@r.c.salyer3652 and that's why I'm moving there. So rich in nature, history and culture. And hunting, fishing as well. 🇺🇸

Story of how stupid people are.lots of spirits were dominated. Most men did not get rich.

@@meganmclaughlin9056 Yes....today we want the gov't to care for us cradle to grave.

Yo i thought the same thing about crypto… modern day gold rush

You are so welcome!

The same is the reason I took my 10 year old son on a back packing trip across the Rockies in the Rocky Mountain Park. 30 lb. pack on him and 3 day back packing and camping out - dodging the bears to keep our food, wittinessing the wild life, but walking over a 13,000 ft pass with a heavy load and hardly any oxygen, I had to keep prodding him on - it was a struggle for both of us - the hardest he'd ever been through But, once done - I told him David everything that you experience in life will be some times hard, but never as hard as this trip. Congratulations you've done it and now I know you can endure what life throws at you - it will be down hill from here as as far as the pain is concerned.

Wow, thanks!

Yes agree, the gentleman talking about the horse that died on the trail and was completely cut in half by walkers has always stuck in my mind . Read the book 20 plus years ago, must dig it out again.

Sounds so cool n Thanks for the info on the book I'm a read it

Yes sir. I keep that book with me as i moved around from Canada to US.

Also Pierre Burton's mother Laura Burton wrote an interesting book about the Klondike Gold Rush, before, during and after the event. She was a school teacher living in Dawson City. The book is called "I Married the Klondike", also very frank and entertaining recount of this event. She wrote the book while Pierre was a toddler.

@@Curlyblonde I need to read that book.

@@Kanakid The book is out of print and is hard to find, but if you are lucky to get your hands on a copy, the stories are memorable. I found my copy at a Thrift Store many years ago. She writes about the many characters like Diamond Lil, Klondike Mike, Robert Service that she personally knew and the notable events that happened at the height of the Gold Rush. If you read both Laura & Pierre's books, take a trip to Skagway and go on the train over Chilicoot Pass (still from 1897), then go on to Dawson City. History will come alive for you and you'll understand the story behind everything you see.

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@@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia That's 'the' Buffalo ! 💀

My husband and I explored Bodie in the 80s. I had found a book in town written about Bodie and Rosa Mae a town prostitute. It said she was buried outside if the cemetery bc of her occupation and I found her grave. We had a great time exploring Bodie the book was a map to the town

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Ya ever have "Yukon Jack"......one time I had too much....that shit was like drinking "magic mushrooms".....you saw shit and believe me, you heard the wild calling you.....and eventually the toilet.

Yea, those Days were the Days of Adventure. It took me until my 60's to finally realize that late 1800's and early 1900's, early last Century WAS the age of Discovery of so many wild countries and indigenous societies to be the first to explore them was priceless experience. I could not understand how my Dad had left his family (us) and traveled the World? He'd go on to circumnavigate on Merchant Ships the Whole World 13 times. Went to Madagascar when it was like "Jurasic Park", and not one sailor would leave the ship to spend a night on shore! He kept the memories of those horrific sounds come from deep in the jungle. His Captain came and got them out of a bar in Singapore and rushed them to their ship and said "cut the lines" as they steamed out and down the river with artillary rounds coming over their bow from the Japanese. It was when the Japanese invaded Singapore and they were some of the last to get out. During the 30's my Dad would dive for coins from the passengers arriving on the White Line Ships in Honolulu, then go bottle bootlegged beer at a warehouse. He'd sleep above the warehouse. One time in the 80's we asked him to come with us to Kaui, as we had rented a house on the beach for a week at Hanalei. His answer: No son, I've been there 154 times, holds no interest for me. He crewed also as an able bodied Seaman on the last Square Rigged Sailing Ship in the Pacific that regularly took Rum from Hawaii to California during the Prohibition. He even was in Moscow within 15 years after their Revolution. He was a hard rock miner in Utah and Idaho too. Then he was in WWII as a Medic on Vanuatu Island in South Pacific, where he had a front row seat of the battle of Guadacanal. There he shared a flight on a DC-3 with a couple of cannibal Pigmy Chiefs, one was quite happy he remembers, as he had just had one of his enemies for breakfast prior to the flight to go make pow wow with the US Generals. During the Depression while catching a ride on a freight train through the South. They were all taken off the train by the Greenville, Alabama Sheriff's posse, and jailed there. Then they were "rented out" to a local Lumber Company to cut timber on a chain gang - said it was just like in "Cool Hand Luke" with Paul Newman. After a month on the chain gang and no problems, they were trucked back to the same railroad site and put back on another "Westbound Freight"! These were only a few of his stories. All his family and peers seemed to know how fantastic his life was and even the millionaires in the family looked up to him. They knew he had the guts to sacrifice everything for the Adventure.

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Many thanks!

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I rather go Rob a bank back then. Better than go live in -40 for months and try to hike to find gold.

And the women

Yeah some of those places got absolutely torn up by people who could afford those massive machines. 😕

What you are describing personally is Placer mining with a pan or a small hand powered sluicebox. Commercial Placer mining with heavy equipment is banned in most of North America. It's quite highly regulated in Alaska and Yukon. "Hydraulic Mining" that you describe is even more devastating to rivers and stream (riparian) habitats; as were the huge self propelled dredged that were introduced to the Dawson City area during the first third of the 20th century to rework historic placer sands and aggregate deposits. 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦

Yay, thank you!

Yeah, Bogart thinking everyone trying to steal his goods.

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People where risking their lives trying to find gold in Yukon Gold Rush. Today's investment schemes it's only money

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Best way to make money during a gold rush is to mine miners😂.

I read pans and shovels where 15.00. In those days that's a insane amount of money for that stuff

Very few got rich and many came home broke

@@colinsushiboy745 maybe you’re right…but I say good for them following their dreams, tough dudes😎

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Thank you very much!

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I was always told that you don't want to get real fond of something you might have to eat!

You gave no idea of the desperation that these people were feeling in this time.

@@thearsenalmisfit2414 well that surely isn’t an excuse for treating those living beings like machines. Nobody forced those people to be up there in the mountains. The only reason they went there was the craving for quick money. „Just endure the pain a few months/years and come home a rich man that never has to work again - No matter what it will cost.“ This was the mindset and it’s definitely not an admirable mindset. It’s okay to use animals for work. It’s okay to eat animals. But it’s never okay to misstread animals! Even if their sole purpose is being eaten, make their life as good as possible. When their death is inevitable, the method should be fast, painless and carried out with as few „pre slaughter stress“ as possible. Anything else is just inhumane and should have consequences! Treat every soul you encounter like you want to be treated! Even if it is considered food.

Rage about something that happened over 100 years ago? Wow

@@jacobjorgenson9285 so you think forgetting about the Holocaust is okay? The great Chinese famine due to Mao? 9/11? Yeah, we really should ignore this ages old stuff because it lies in the past, and nobody cares for the past..