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The largest gold rush of all attracted about 100 000 people to the Yukon. It was sparked off by George Carmack and his native brothers-in-law, "Tagish Charley," and "Skookum Jim" Mason. They found gold on Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River, on August 16, 1896. The creek proved to be It lasted just a decade, but the California gold rush was a gigantic adventure for a generation of fragile young men, most of them citizens of a fragile young nation. They took their name ~ the forty-niners ~ from the year that the gold rush began. In 1849 the East was dazzled by the news that across ...Th...