This weekend will mark 125 years since the arrival of the steamship PORTLAND with its cargo of gold on the Seattle waterfront – which signaled the start of the Klondike Gold Rush. That event shaped ...

The duo chats with THR about drawing from history to prepare for Discovery's first scripted miniseries. By Lesley Goldberg Television Editor, West Coast Like star Richard Madden, Cornish and Simmons ...

The Klondike gold rush has been written about so extensively that any author setting out to write a new account of that brief but pivotal period in northern history faces the challenge of making it ...

Word quickly spread that quantities of gold had been found along a remote river in what is today the Yukon Territory of Canada. Seattle merchants jumped at the opportunity and word reached far and ...

Mary Jennings For the Stanwood Camano News Jun 25, 2024 Jun 25, 2024 0 In the late 1800s, Stanwood area fortune hunters and scores of others from far and wide made the challenging journey to the ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

Restaurateur Chauncey Wright was a Seattle legend in his own time. He had moved to Seattle from Los Angeles as a boy in the 1880’s, headed up to the Klondike for the gold rush, where he sold coffee ...

Heard around the Swedish side of my family's wood cook stove decades ago was the story of a cousin who left Ballard in search of Klondike gold. As the story went, he launched his adventure with a pal ...

Vergne "Vern" C. Gorst (1876-1953), Pacific Air Transport owner and president, stands left of Claude Ryan, manufacturer of Ryan airplanes often used for airmail runs. The two had just finished a 1926 ...

In honor of 100 years of delicious history, Klondike is collaborating with Cake Boss Buddy Valastro to create a 10-tier birthday cake inspired by the bar’s flavor portfolio. Together, Klondike and ...

The top of Ellsworth’s sculpture is revealed at the museum. The sculpture honoring famed early Bend resident Kate Rockwell, better known as Klondike Kate, and other creative and independent women of ...

She started out as a coal miner’s daughter and ended up making her fortune catering to the needs of people hoping to strike it rich in the Yukon, earning the title “The Richest Woman in the Klondike” ...