F
Fairview Hotel; closure of; construction of; and 1899 fire; lease of; opening of; success and clientele of. See also Mulrooney, Belinda
Fawcett, Thomas: campaign against; departure of; as gold commissioner
Fenton, Faith (Alice Freeman)
Finnegan’s Point
fires (in Dawson): in June 1898 (church); in October 1898; in April 1899
First National Bank of Seattle
Five Finger Rapids
Flora (steamer)
food and supplies: bread, bacon and beans; delivered by steamers; at Grand Forks Hotel; Haskell’s description of; malnutrition; prices of; shortages of; vegetable gardens in Dawson; in winter camps; year-supply requirement. See also outfitting
Fort Reliance
Fort Selkirk
Forty Mile; as a boom town; as a ghost town; missionaries at; NWMP post at
Fortymile River
Fort Yukon (Alaska)
French Canadians: in Dawson; prospectors
French Hill
French Joe (prospector)
Front Street (Dawson); buildings destroyed in 1899 fire; crowds on; mud and flooding on; saloons on; stores on
frostbite
Fuller, Thomas W.
fur trade
G
gambling
Gates, Swiftwater Bill
Geise, Julius
Geise, Lizzie
Gendreau, Father Pierre Edmond
Geological Survey of Canada
ghost towns
Gilmer, Walker
gold: banks attracted by; carried out by Klondike Kings; churches attracted by; Dawson’s dependence on; importance of; Klondike yields; prospectors’ obsession with; as a solid investment; storage and transport of; types of; used as currency; values of
Gold Bottom Creek
Gold Hill
gold pans and panning
gold royalty rates and payments: collection of; prospectors’ resentment of. See also Canadian government
gold scales
gold standard (for currency)
gold strikes: in Alaska; in Yukon
Goodman, Jim
Good Samaritan Hospital (Dawson)
Goox, Káa (Tagish Charlie)
Grand Forks
Grand Forks Hotel; prospector’s gold stored at; sale of. See also Mulrooney, Belinda
Green Tree Inn
Grouard, Bishop Emile
grubstaking
Gwich’in
H
Haeckel, Ernst
Hamilton (steamer)
Hān; impact of gold rush on; Moosehide settlement; Tr’ondëk fishing camp
Hansen, J.E.
hard rock mining
Hargraves, Bert
Harper, Captain
Harper’s magazine
Harvey, Doc; and Jack London
Haskell, Bill: arrival in Dyea; background and youth; claim at Bonanza Creek; in Colorado; departure from Klondike; journey north to Yukon and Alaska; later life; partnership with Meeker; Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-Fields
health conditions and problems: aboriginal remedies for; in Dawson; frostbite; of the Hān; malnutrition; scurvy; of stampeders and prospectors; typhoid
Healy, John Jerome
Hearst, William Randolph
Hegg, Eric
Helly, Dorothy O.
Henderson, Alice
Henderson, Patsy
Henderson, Robert
Henderson Creek
Henderson’s discovery
Higgins, Charlie
Hitchcock, Mary
Holden, Helen
Holy Cross Mission (Alaska)
horses
hotels. See also specific establishments
Hudson’s Bay Trading Company; and Shaw
Hunker Creek
I
Indian River
indigenous peoples. See aboriginal peoples
Ingersoll, Ernest
Inuit
Isaac, Chief (Hān)
J
Jensen, Emil
Jesuit Order. See also specific priests
Judge, Charles
Judge, Father William; age and health; in Alaska; background and youth; character and appearance of; and church built by; death of; disinterest in gold; and Doig; at Forty Mile; and J. London; loneliness and isolation of; and McDonald; monuments to; move to Dawson; and Mulrooney; and Oblate Order; and Rev. Father René; status and recognition in Dawson; trips to Klondike creeks; view of prospectors and stampeders. See also St. Mary’s Hospital
Juneau (Alaska)
K
Kammueler, Fred
Kingsley, Mary
King Solomon’s Dome
Kipling, Rudyard
Klondike City
Klondike gold creeks and fields; Allen’s visit to; corporate investment and mechanization at; desecration of landscape; gold yields from; guidebooks and maps for; population growth in; Shaw’s visit to; trail to (from Dawson); varying accounts of
Klondike Kings: return to US
Klondike Nugget
Klondike (Tr’ondëk) River; Hān fishing camp at; renamed by prospectors
Kotlik (Alaska)
Kotzebue Sound
Koyukuk
L
Ladue, Joseph: construction and development in Dawson; and Henderson; sawmills; trip south
Lake Laberge
Lake Lindeman
land ownership
land prices
Langevin, Monsignor Louis Philippe Adelard
Last Chance Creek
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, and Laurier Liberal government
law and order: miners meetings; in Skagway. See also North-West Mounted Police
Lefebvre, Father Joseph-Camille
Leggett, Bill
Liberal Party. See Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
Lind, Johnny
Lippy, Tom
Little Salmon River
Livernash, Edward
lode mining
log cabin construction
London, Charmian
London, Jack; accounts of the Klondike; attitude to aboriginal people; attitude to women; background and youth; career and literary success; character and appearance; claim on Henderson Creek; compared to Service; in Dawson; death of; departure from Klondike; journey to Dawson; literary style; reading material; scurvy; socialist views of; trip down Yukon; winter on Split-Up Island
-publications: Burning Daylight; Call of the Wild; A Daughter of the Snows; The Faith of Men; “From Dawson to the Sea,”; The God of His Fathers; “In a Far Country,”; John Barleycorn; Martin Eden; “The One Thousand Dozen,”; The Son of the Wolf; “A Thousand Deaths,”; “To the Man on the Trail,”; “Which Make Men Remember,”; White Fang; “The White Silence,”
Lugard, Sir Frederick John Dealtry
Lynch, Jeremiah
Lynn Canal
M
Macdonald, John A.
Mackenzie River
MacLanie, James
Macleod, Rod
Magnet Roadhouse (Bonanza Creek)
Maloof, Freda
maps; guidebooks to the North
Marsh Lake
Marx, Karl, and Marxism
Mason (Bank of Commerce teller)
McClintock River
McCook, James
McDonald, Alex: and Dawson tourists; and Doig; and Father Judge; and Mulrooney; and Steele; and Wade; wealth and success of
McFarlane (prospector)
McPhee, Bill
McPhee, Harry
Meeker, Joe: claim at Bonanza Creek; claim near Circle City; in Colorado; death of; departure from Klondike; journey to Circle City; partnership with Haskell
Miles Canyon
Miller, Joaquin
Milton, John
miners’ meetings
mine shafts
Mining Record (Juneau)
mining regulations
Mitchell, Belle
Mitchell, George
“Skiff,”
M & M saloon
Monroe (traveller to Klondike)
Monte Carlo saloon
Montreal Hotel
Moosehide Creek
Moose Hide Mountain
Moosehide Slide
Moosehide Village
Morgan, Edward
Morrison, Roderick
mosquitoes
Mounties. See North-West Mounted Police
Mulrooney, Belinda; arrival in Dawson; attitude to banks; background and youth; and Pierre Berton; and Carbonneau; character and appearance; on the Chilkoot Trail; claims owned by; entrepreneurial skills; and Father Judge; and 1899 fire; journey to Dawson; later life; and McDonald; memoir by; and the Pioneers’ hospital benefit; property development; restaurant; sale of ladies goods; and Steele; theatrical performances; wealth and success of. See also Fairview Hotel; Grand Forks Hotel
N
newspapers: correspondents sent to Klondike; coverage of Klondike; published in Dawson; read aloud in Dawson
Nome (Alaska)
North, the: lure of; mineral wealth of
North American Transportation and Trading Company: Dawson warehouse and business; gold storage at; and the NWMP; and winter food shortage
northern lights
Northern restaurant
Northern Saloon (Dawson)
North West Company
North-West Mounted Police (NWMP, Mounties); control over gambling halls and saloons; customs duty collection by; Dawson headquarters; mail service provided by; new posts in Yukon; officer’s mess; post at Bennett Lake; post at Chilkoot Pass; post at Forty Mile; post at White Pass; purpose of; salaries of; sent to the Klondike; Shaw and; uniformsof
North-West Territories
Norwood, H.H.
Nulato (Alaska)
Oblate Order
Ogilvie, William: and claim registrations; in Forty Mile; prediction for Klondike Gold Rush; and Steele; survey work; as Yukon commissioner
O’Hara, Sadie; at Grand Forks
Opera House (Dawson)
Opera House (Forty Mile)
Orpheum
Ottawa Hotel
outfitting (for the North): cost and weight of; customs duty collected on; horses; marketing of. See also food and supplies
P
Pacific hotel
Pacific Steamship Company
Palmer, Frederick
Pavilion saloon/hotel
paydirt
Peel River
Pelly River
Phiscater, Frank
Pioneer saloon/hotel
placer gold and gold fields
placer mining
Porcupine River
Portland (steamer)
Portus B. Weare (steamer)
postal service
Presbyterian Church; Good Samaritan Hospital
prospectors and stampeders: and aboriginal women; age of; camped at Bennett Lake; characteristics of; cheechakos; clothing; handmade boats; inexperience and lack of preparation; lack of success; memoirs by; sourdoughs; tales of gold rushes; wives of
prostitution and prostitutes: arrests and medical inspection; clientele and openness of; and 1899 fire; photographs of; suicides. See also women
Purdy, Martha Munger
R
Rabbit Creek. See Bonanza Creek
Reindeer Creek
remittance men
René, Reverend Father J.B.
rifflebars
Rink Rapids
Robeau, Father
rockers
Rodenbach, Emil
S
saloons: in Dawson; Sunday closing; supplies of whiskey for; in tents. See also specific establishments
San Francisco; Dawson compared to
San Francisco Examiner
Scales, The
Scandinavian American Bank of Seattle
Schuldenfrei, Solomon
scurvy; aboriginal spruce tea remedy for; cases treated at St. Mary’s Hospital
Seattle: Klondike Kings arrival; water route to Dawson from
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Times
Selwyn River
Service, Robert W; Ballads of a Cheechako; Bar-room Ballads; “The Call of the Wild,”; “The Cremation of Sam McGee,”; Ploughman of the Moon; Rhymes of a Red Cross Man; Rhymes of a Rolling Stone; “The Shooting of Dan McGrew,”; The Songs of a Sourdough; The Spell of the Yukon; The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses; The Trail of Ninety-Eight; “A Verseman’s Apology,”
Shaw, Flora (later Lugard); background and youth; contribution of; in Dawson; departure from Dawson; at gold creeks and hills; Imperialist views of; investigative reporting by; journey to Dawson; later life; in Ottawa; and Sifton
Sheep Camp
Shepard, Eliza
Shepard, James
Short, James
Sifton, Clifford
Silks, Mattie
Sisters of St. Ann; in Dawson
Sixty Mile
Sixtymile River
Skagway (Alaska)
Skagway Trail
Skookum
Skookum Jim (Keish)
Sloper, Merritt
sluice boxes
Smith, Donald Alexander, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
Smith, Jefferson Randolph (“Soapy”)
Snake Hips Lulu
Sovereign (steamer)
Spanish-American War
Spencer, Catherine
Spencer, Harry
Spencer, Herbert
Split-Up Island
spring conditions; arrival of stampeders; ice break-up; mud and flooding
Squaw Rapids
S.S. Leah
stampeders. See prospectors and stampeders
steamers; arrivals and departures; food delivered by; gold shipped in; supplies delivered by; trips to Dawson
Steele, Marie Elizabeth de Lotbinière Harwood
Steele, Samuel Benfield; background and character; career and success; claims owned by; control of Dawson; departure from Yukon; and Fenton; and government corruption; later life; marriage and family; and Mulrooney; photographs of; and Shaw
St. Elias Mountains
Stewart, Robert
Stewart River; London’s party at; mouth of
Stick people
Stikine River
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary’s Hospital; building and expansion of; chapel for; Father Judge’s work in; fundraisers for; scurvy patients; Sisters of St. Ann at; supplies and funds needed for; supported by police license sales and fines. See also Judge, Father William
St. Michael (Alaska)
Stone House
Storey, G.E.
Strathcona, Lord (Donald Smith)
Sulphur Creek
supplies. See food and supplies
Swinehart, G.B.
T
Tagish
Tagish Lake
Taiya River
Tanana
Tanana River
Tar Stater (handmade boat)
Taylor, Charles
Taylor, Charlie
telegraph
telephones (in Dawson)
Telin River
tents
Thompson, Fred; voyage to the Klondike
Thorson, John
Times (London)
Tivoli Theatre
Tláa, Shaaw (Kate)
Tlingit; men arrested for murder; porters on Chilkoot Trail; women as wives of prospectors
tourists
Trail of ’
Treadgold, Arthur Newton Christian
Tr’ondëk (later Klondike) River: Hān fishing camp at
Tupper, Sir Charles Hibbert
Tutchone
Tweedy, Corporal
U
Umatilla (steamer)
V
Van Buren, Edith
Victoria Hotel (Dawson)
Victorian (steamship)
W
Wade, Frederick Coates: as crown prosecuto
r and land commissioner; and Mulrooney
Walker, Franklin
Walsh, James
West Dawson
whiskey
White, Libby
Whitehorse
White Horse Rapids; Gates on; Haskell and Meeker on; London on; Mulrooney on; Shaw on
White Pass; horses used on; NWMP post on; printing press hauled over; Shaw on
White Pass and Yukon Railway
White River
White Trail
Wichter, Mr. and Mrs.
Wills, H.T.
Windy Lake
winter conditions: on Chilkoot Trail; danger of beards; food supplies and shortages; prospectors and stampeders caught in; warnings to stampeders about; in winter camps
women (in the North); aboriginal; dance hall girls; luxury goods for; proportion of Dawson population; in prospector camps; in saloons; social hierarchy of; wives of prospectors. See also prostitution and prostitutes
Woolf, Leonard
World War I
Y
Yukon Act
Yukon Basin
Yukon Belle (handmade boat)
Yukon Executive Council
Yukon Field Force
Yukon Hotel
Yukon Hygeia Water Supply Company
Yukon Midnight Sun
Yukon Order of Pioneers
Yukon River; delta; fall freeze-up; spring ice jams and flooding; steamers on; survey of
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Gold diggers : striking it rich in the Klondike / by Charlotte Gray.
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