Word 1 of 10: CHILKOOT
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- CHILKOOT
- The Chilkoot Pass climbed about 1,000 feet in its last stretch, and the so-called Golden Stairs were roughly 1,500 steps cut into the snow.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- DAWSON
- Dawson City sits where the Klondike River meets the Yukon River, and it was named for the geologist George Mercer Dawson.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SKAGWAY
- Skagway, Alaska was the gateway for many stampeders, and the White Pass and Yukon Route railway, begun in 1898, was built to carry people up out of it.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SLUICE
- A sluice box let running water carry off gravel while heavier gold settled behind small bars along the bottom.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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A Klondike gold rush word search, free and printable, set among canvas tent towns and the long, steep trail over the Chilkoot Pass.
About The Klondike Gold Rush
In August 1896, gold turned up on Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River, and word reached the outside world the next summer when steamers docked in Seattle and San Francisco with miners and their gold. Tens of thousands set out for Dawson, going through Skagway or nearby Dyea, over the White Pass or the steep Chilkoot, where Canadian Mounties wouldn't let anyone through without a year's worth of supplies. Dawson went from a moose pasture to a boomtown of saloons, dance halls and canvas tents, and plenty of people who came for the gold ended up making their money selling shovels and flapjacks.
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