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Klondike gold rush

Over 100,000 Americans left farms and factories to search for gold in the faraway Yukon, most without knowing how to survive in the alien wilderness.

A Tagish

How a bunch of the boys—and some of the girls, too—slogged up to the gold diggings in the Yukon; and how Hegg the photographer joined in the scramble, leaving a record of one of the most rugged adventures of modern times.

One hundred years ago, Alaska became part of the United States when Secretary of Slate William Henry Seward bought the vast territory from the Russians.

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