FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The lure of gold brought nearly 100,000 would-be prospectors to Dawson City more than a century ago, and the small Canadian city on the banks of the Yukon River continues to relive ...
DAWSON CITY, the Yukon Territory — The first tourists to Dawson City arrived in July of 1898, a few weeks before the boomtown’s second birthday. Mrs. Mary E. Hitchcock (widow of a U.S. Navy officer) ...