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| Year | Stories |
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| 1897 | 4 |
| 1898 | 2 |
6 stories matching rush
- Livestock for the Klondike Gold Rush
As miners flood the Yukon, entrepreneurs are shipping live cattle and sheep north to feed the boomtowns.
- A Thousand Dogs for the Klondike
A Seattle syndicate imported stray dogs by the carload from Chicago, trained them to haul gold-rush supplies, and kenneled the pack in an abandoned brickyard.
- The Klondike Horse Glut Comes Home to Seattle
More than a hundred work horses sent north for the gold rush are back in Seattle, and the bottom has dropped out of the local market.
- The Klondike Gold Rush and the Northwest Farmer
As thousands flock to the Alaskan gold fields, regional agriculturalists anticipate a massive economic windfall from the sudden demand for food.
- The Wheat Was Ready. The Threshers Weren't.
After several lean years, farmers in the big wheat district around Spokane finally got the crop they had been praying for — and then two weeks of rain and snow arrived before the machines could get to it.
- The 1898 Sales Pitch That Called the San Juan Islands a 'Klondike at Home'
A judge's promotional essay promised apples, prunes, sheep, fish, limestone and health in Washington's island county—and complained that the outside world had not yet noticed.