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Gold Rush (titled Gold Rush: Alaska in the first season) is a reality television series that airs on Discovery and its affiliates worldwide. The series follows the placer gold mining efforts of various family-run mining companies, initially in Alaska , but then mostly in the Klondike region of Dawson City , Yukon , Canada .
In 1910, another gold rush started in Iditarod. Ike Bayles left Fairbanks to follow the 10,000 miners in what would be the last great gold rush. Ike met up with his brother, Sam Bayles, (who had also followed the gold rush to Nome, Alaska in 1900) and they opened the Bayles Clothing Company with locations in Iditarod and Discovery, Alaska. In ...
Gold Rush (formerly Gold Rush Alaska) is a reality television series that airs on Discovery Channel, with reruns also airing on TLC. The show's ninth season began airing on October 12, 2018. As of May 4, 2018, a total of 176 episodes of Gold Rush have been aired, including 16 specials and two mini-series.
Fred "Dakota" Hurt, the rugged white-water gold miner who appeared on Discovery's Alaska-set docuseries "Gold Rush: White Water," has died. He was 80.
Jesse Goins, who appeared on Discovery’s Gold Rush: Dave Turin’s Lost Mine, has died, according to the network.Goins was 60 years old. On the reality show following miners attempting to ...
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Felix Pedro's discovery of gold here in 1902 began the Alaskan gold rush. Felix Pedro discovered gold in the Tanana Hills northeast of Fairbanks on or about July 22, 1902 [ 6 ] in a small unnamed stream (now known as "Pedro Creek") northeast of Fairbanks , prompting him to exclaim "There's gold in them there hills", and triggering a full-scale ...
In 1894, McQuesten founded Circle City, Alaska, which developed the largest log cabin district in the North Country. He and Kate set up the Alaska Commercial Company in town. With the frenzy of the Klondike gold rush in 1897, he feared food shortages in Circle City and decided to leave Alaska. He bought some mining claims on Eldorado and ...