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To: dirtboy

My wife’s great uncles went north to the Yukon. She has a Gold nugget watch chain that belonged to one of them. They returned to Humboldt County and found more gold cutting the Redwoods...


300 posted on 03/08/2010 2:20:39 PM PST by tubebender (Tagline... I don't need no stinkin Tagline)
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To: tubebender
The Klondike Gold Rush is a truly amazing historical story - the hardships so many men went through in the hopes of getting somewhere during economic hard times.

Image of men toiling packs up to the Chilkoot Pass to build their one-year stash of goods in order to be able to enter Canada:


302 posted on 03/08/2010 2:25:18 PM PST by dirtboy
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