Gold fever! The rush was on to the frozen north.
In 1895, two prospectors discovered gold in the Yukon Territory in the far north of Canada. When news of their find was published in newspapers around the world, it set off a frenzy that would bring tens of thousands of fortune-seekers to that hostile, frozen land. Leaving families and jobs behind, men bitten by gold fever ventured up raging rivers and across snowy mountains into a land so inhospitable that it took the lives of many.
Author Pierre Berton was raised in the Yukon Territories and heard the incredible tales of survival first hand. Of the one hundred thousand men involved in the stampede, only a small handful could show a profit, but for those that survived it was the adventure of a lifetime.
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