Cultural legacy of the Klondike Gold Rush

Service's best-known lines are from the opening of The Cremation of Sam McGee (1907), which goes: One of the last books of Jules Verne, Le Volcan d'Or (The Volcano of Gold), deals with the terrible hardships endured by the gold-seekers in the Klondike.

Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith ‘mined the miners' through swindles and fraud until meeting a notorious end on the streets of Skagway.

Gold at Fortymile Creek (1995) By Michael Gates follows the accounts of the first gold-seekers in Alaska and the Yukon from their arrival in 1873 until the stampede to the Klondike in 1896.

The most comprehensive collection of lyrics, score, chords and background information on songs and parodies by professional musicians and gold seekers for the entire Klondike era.

Alaskan journalist Lael Morgan chronicles the ribald, sometimes poignant, and often tragic stories of the prostitutes and “disreputable” women in the entertainment and sex industries who were the earliest female pioneers of the Far North.

It’s a fun and exciting adventure story while providing an insightful, authentic look at life after the famous Alaska gold rush.

Gates gives insight into the important question of Klondike’s role in the making of the West Coast vaudeville circuit and, ultimately, the creation of Hollywood itself.

Also about the gold rush were Lev Kuleshov's silent-era adaptation of Jack London's "The Unexpected" By the Law (1926), the silent epic The Trail of '98 (1928), and Mae West's Klondike Annie (1936).

It starred Ralph Taeger and James Coburn and episodes were directed by William Conrad, Elliott Lewis, and Sam Peckinpah.

The 2014 Discovery Channel miniseries Klondike stars Richard Madden as Bill Haskell, a real-life adventurer who travels to Yukon, Canada, in the late 1890s, during the gold rush.

The TG4 series An Klondike (Dominion Creek in the United States) aired for two seasons from 2015–2017 and stars Owen McDonnell, Dara Devaney, and Seán T. Ó Meallaigh as three fictional Irish brothers who become involved in the gold rush.

Promoters brought a seemingly endless supply of singers and dancers North, some of whose names became part of the gold rush vocabulary.

National performers like Ida Rossiter, Florence Brocee, Anna Kane, Beatrice Lorne graced the North, joined even by the Black Hills’ Calamity Jane, who tried to make a comeback in the Klondike.

Tunes in ragtime and Gay Nineties style, appeared within days after news of the Klondike gold strike arrived in American and Canadian cities.

[3] A number of songs written about the northern gold rush became national best sellers as the first disc records began to be used with phonographs, or gramophones around the mid-1890s.

The expansion of demand for live talent shows during the Gold Rush led to a permanent change to North America’s entertainment landscape.

Two of the most significant vaudeville impresarios in the early 20th century – Alexander Pantages and John Considine – had their start in the northern gold rush.

Pantages returned to Seattle to become one of America’s greatest theater and movie tycoons, beginning a competition with fellow Seattle-based Constantine, who reportedly spent some time in Nome.

The song "Gold Dust" by Canadian independent artist Right On Yukon makes multiple references to the hardships endured by fortune seekers and animals along the White Pass trail from Skagway to Dawson.

[9] Carl Barks' 1950s Scrooge McDuck comics established the character as a successful participant in the Klondike rush when he was young, around the turn of the century.

[citation needed] Lefty Frizzell's 1964 song "Saginaw, Michigan" tells the tale of a poor fisherman who feigns the discovery of Klondike gold in a plot to remove the hostile father of the woman he loves.

In addition, the Klondike gold rush proved to be one of the most famous eras of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's history.

For many years, Klondike Days was a fun summer exhibition with themed events such as the Sunday Promenade, the Sourdough raft race, free pancake breakfasts, saloons, gold panning and era costume parties.

Despite the many sad realities of the gold rush, Edmonton appreciated the Klondike spirit, which was characterised by a tenacious hope for success in the face of hardship, and an energetic zest for life.