With that pronouncement, the Klondike Gold Rush was on! On July 17, 1897, eleven months after the initial discovery of gold, the steamship Portland arrived in Seattle from Dawson with "more than a ton of gold", according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Since the Yukon was so remote, word of this find spread relatively slowly for almost a year. Gold was literally found all over the place, and most of these early stakeholders (who became known as the "Klondike Kings") became wealthy. The creek was promptly renamed Bonanza Creek, and many of the locals started staking claims. On AugYukon-area Indians Skookum Jim Mason and Tagish Charlie, along with Seattleite George Carmack found gold in Rabbit Creek, near Dawson, in the Yukon region of Canada.
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