The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon, in northwestern Canada, between 16 and 19 Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 16;Kent Curtis, "Producing a Gold Rush National Ambitions and the Northern Rocky Mountains, 1853–1863," Western Historical Quarterly 40, no 3 (Autumn 09) "Gregory Gulch, Colorado," (Photo) Denver Public Library, Western History and Genealogy Collection David Lindsey, ed, "The Journal of an 1859 Pike's Peak Gold Seeker," Kansas Historical Quarterly 22, no 4 (Winter 1956)While the California gold rush is by far the most famous, the first gold rush that occurred in the United States actually happened 50 years earlier in North Carolina Over 30,000 people poured into the Tar Heel state to scour the hills for gold after a 17pound nugget was discovered in Cabarrus County 8 Weird But True Facts About The Gold Rush Ancestry Blog The yukon gold rush facts...