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Episode 22 - The Rush Out
Just like no one can agree on exactly how the Klondike Gold Rush started, how and when the stampede ended is also the topic of fierce...
Keith Halliday
Nov 18, 20212 min read
Episode 21 - Hollywood and the Klondike
What do Harrison Ford, Charlie Chaplin and Bugs Bunny all have in common? They’ve all starred in films about the Klondike Gold Rush. From...
Keith Halliday
Oct 11, 20211 min read
Episode 20 - Sam Steele and the North-West Mounted Police
The Mountie is one of the iconic images of the Klondike Gold Rush, whether in red serge in Dawson or behind a dogsled on a rugged Yukon...
Keith Halliday
Sep 27, 20211 min read
Episode 19 - The Paris of the North
The gold rush is at its peak. Just a year ago, Dawson was a moose pasture with a few cabins. Now it has dance halls, Parisian fashions,...
Keith Halliday
Aug 29, 20211 min read
Episode 18 - How to mine gold, stampeder style
Getting to the Klondike and finding a claim was only the start of your mining adventure. You then had to learn how to get the gold out of...
Keith Halliday
Jul 11, 20211 min read
Episode 17 - Klondike Kate
Klondike Kate was the most famous of the women who graced the stages of Dawson's dance halls. Her fascinating life story is layers of...
Keith Halliday
Jul 11, 20211 min read
Episode 16 - Interview with Bill Webber
We are honoured to share our interview with Bill Webber, a Kwanlin Dün elder and well-known community leader involved in organizations...
Keith Halliday
Apr 25, 20211 min read
Episode 15 - Boom Town Dawson City
It's October 1897 and you've finally made it to Dawson City! The city is one year old, and halfway on its meteoric rise from moose...
Keith Halliday
Apr 5, 20211 min read
Episode 14 - Indigenous Peoples and Russian America
This episode steps back to the 1700s to look at the experience of Indigenous peoples as the first Europeans -- the Russians -- arrived in...
Keith Halliday
Mar 11, 20211 min read
Episode 13 - Skagway to Dawson in a leaky boat
You've made it over the Chilkoot and built your home-made boat. Now winter is coming and it's a race against time to get to Dawson before...
Keith Halliday
Jan 11, 20211 min read
Episode 12 - Interview with Alice Cyr
Pascale and Keith interview Alice Cyr, former Skagway interpretive guide for the National Parks Service and Alaskan cruise ship lecturer,...
Keith Halliday
Jan 11, 20211 min read
Episode 11 - Soapy Smith, the uncrowned King of Skagway
Soapy Smith is one of the gold rush's most notorious names, even though he never made it to the Klondike. He found his gold in the...
Keith Halliday
Nov 18, 20201 min read
Episode 10 - The Other Routes to the Klondike
With our stampeder Tappan Adney safely at Lindeman building his boat for the final push to the Klondike, we'll take a break from his...
Keith Halliday
Oct 16, 20201 min read
Episode 9 - The Golden Stairs
The final push over the summit, hefting a year's worth of supplies over snow and boulders on a steep slope sometimes 35 degrees or more....
Keith Halliday
Sep 24, 20201 min read
Episode 8 - The infamous Chilkoot Trail
Follow the muddy, exhausted footsteps of a Stampeder along the Chilkoot Trail, and find out why the route is still notorious 120 years...
Keith Halliday
Sep 11, 20201 min read
Episode 7 - Chilkoot Trail or White Pass?
"Whichever way you go, you will wish you had gone the other." Stampeders arriving in Skagway and Dyea had a big choice to make: the...
Keith Halliday
Aug 26, 20201 min read
Episode 6 - Klondike Ho!
So you've decided to go get some Klondike gold. First you have to find out where the Klondike is, how to get there, and what you'll need...
Keith Halliday
Aug 11, 20202 min read
Episode 5 - The News ... And a Ton of Gold ... Arrive Outside
Steamers from Alaska arrive in San Francisco and Seattle a day apart, full of Klondike miners with so much gold they have to stagger to...
Keith Halliday
Jul 27, 20201 min read
Episode 4 - The Rush Before the Rush
Someone finally finds the 'Big One' and sparks a stampede out of Forty Mile to Bonanza Creek. The wildest gold rush in history is on,...
Keith Halliday
Jul 13, 20201 min read
Episode 3 - Discovery Day
The day Rabbit Creek became Bonanza Creek, and mayhem ensued. Wait till word reaches Outside... Yukon prospectors have got into a rhythm,...
Keith Halliday
Jun 29, 20201 min read
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