-> I thought you might want to know that today we celebrated dicovery 
-> of gold in the Klondike.  
-> George Washington Carmack, Skookum Jim and Dawson Charlie
-> discovered the mother lode in Rabbit Creek (now Bonanza Creek) 
-> on August 16, 1896 and recorded the claim the following day.  
-> However, it took almost a -> year for the news to get "outside" 
-> and the rest is history.

Long ago, my new wife and I were at the Discovery Day celebration.

We spent the night in Whitehorse and decided that we could spend some time
in Whitehorse. We planned to drive about 700km to Alaska (before the
highway was paved), spend the night near the border, and continue to
Anchorage the next day.

We never did find a place to stay the night until we were about 40km from
Anchorage. At that point, we decided not to stop.

Al totaled, we drove over 1300 km; about half was two lane road and the
other half gravel road.

One of my wife's favorite pieces of jewelry is a pendant she got in
Whitehorse during the Discovery Days celebration.
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