The Klondike rush took a physical toll on the landscape as well as on those who rushed. "Mercury used in processing gold," says one exhibit, "still fouls the Yukon ecosystem and poses an ongoing ...

A Tlingit woman had a pivotal role in starting the Klondike Gold Rush. But Shaaw Tláa ... into a trust and willed that the interest be used to assist Indigenous people in Yukon.

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 ...