CD, Music of the Alaska-Klondike Gold Rush

For twenty years prospectors searched for gold in the valleys of the Yukon drainage, finding occasional snatches of the precious metal, but it was George Carmack's strike on Bonanza Creek on August 17, 1896, in the Yukon, that caught the imagination of the world. His discovery set off one of the biggest rushes the world had known. In 1899 some of those same miners stampeded to Nome. By 1902, Fairbanks beckoned.

Music played an important role in the life of the gold seeker. This recording includes some of the genuine songs from that northern gold rush era.