Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
Restored eighteen-nineties outfitting hotel now a gold rush museum with a ton of gold bars on display.
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This guide to the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Seattle returns to the summer of eighteen ninety-seven, when the steamship Portland docked with sixty-eight prospectors and what newspapers called a ton of gold, setting off a stampede of tens of thousands through the outfitting shops on Second Avenue. It follows the Cadillac Hotel from its start as a busy gear-and-grubstake stop to today's museum, where the gold sits stacked in bars behind glass. Step into the replica of the cramped winter cabin stampeders called home once they reached the Yukon.
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