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I need desprate help with this. What was the environment like during the Klondike Gold Rush? Explore two or three different Internet sources to create a mini-research project about the Klondike Gold Rush. Once you have found your sources, find three passages (from the sources) that give a sense of what life was like in this setting. These passages might describe the climate, the society, or the geography. Finally, summarize each of the passages in your own words.
Be sure to properly cite your sources and include a Works Cited page. View the MLA Style Guide.

Answer 1

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The Klondike Gold Rush is credited for helping the United States out of a depression. Still, it had a horrific impact on the local environment, causing massive soil erosion, water contamination, deforestation and loss of native wildlife, among other things. The gold rush also severely impacted the Native people. With that pronouncement, the Klondike Gold Rush was on! Within six months, approximately 100,000 gold-seekers set off for the Yukon. Winter temperatures in the mountains of northern British Columbia and the Yukon were normally -20 degrees F., and temperatures of -50 degrees F.

By the time the stampeders arrived in the Klondike to search for gold, it was too late to leave because the summers are short in the North. Each man had to build shelter for the winter, and then endure seven months of cold, darkness, disease, isolation and monotony.  The Palm Sunday Avalanche on April 3, 1898 is estimated to have killed sixty-five people on the Chilcot Trail.

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Answer 2

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The Klondike Gold Rush was an event of migration by an estimated 100,000 people prospecting to the Klondike region of north-western Canada in the Yukon region between 1896 and 1899. It’s also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Last Great Gold Rush and the Alaska Gold Rush.

Gold was discovered in many rich deposits along the Klondike River in 1896, but due to the remoteness of the region and the harsh winter climate the news of gold couldn’t travel fast enough to reach the outside world before the following year. Reports of the gold in newspapers created a hysteria that was nation-wide and many people quit their jobs and then left for the Klondike to become gold-diggers.

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