Tag: Diamond Tooth Gertie

Dawson City.  Once the capital of the Yukon, it exploded in the late 1890s after reports of the discovery of gold.  Men, and some women, poured into the city from all over North America, only to find that all of the claims had been staked by the time they arrived.  At one point, it was the largest city west of Winnipeg and north of San Francisco. Continue reading “Day Thirty Five: Dawson City”