![]() ![]() The two men made Alaska's first important gold strike. In October, 1880, Harris and Juneau found the area that Kowee had described. Fuller sent prospectors Richard Harris and Joseph Juneau to find the source of Kowee's sample. Kowee lived on the east side of Gastineau Channel, near what is today's Juneau. ![]() Among those who brought samples to him was Chief Kowee of the Auk Tlingits. Gold was discovered a few miles from Sitka about the same time.Ī mining engineer, George Pilz, in charge of lode gold claims being developed near Sitka, encouraged area Tlingits to search for gold. Henry Thibert and a man known only as McCullough found gold in the Cassiar district north of the Stikine River. In the summer of 1873, word spread of a new gold strike in Canada. Prospectors who headed for the Stikine River gold fields searched other parts of western Canada and into Alaska. News of Choquette's strike spread rapidly among prospectors. In 1861, Buck Choquette found placer gold about 160 miles above the mouth of the Stikine River. They followed the Pacific and Rocky mountains to Montana and Idaho territories and British Columbia. Inspired by the California gold discoveries in 1848, prospectors traveled north looking for gold. Prospectors fond gold in nearby Canada, then Southeast Alaska ![]() Most recently, Alaska's oil deposits attracted the world's attention. Copper, coal, tin, platinum, mercury, and molybdenum were also found in Alaska. Gold seemed to be everywhere in Alaska.Īlaska's mineral wealth was not just gold. Two years later, discoveries were made on the Seward Peninsula, more in Interior Alaska, in Western Alaska along the Innoko River and in the Kuskokwim River drainage, and in northern Alaska in the Chandalar River area. The world heard in 1897 of the Klondike gold fields in western Canada. ![]() They found gold on the Kenai Peninsula in Southcentral Alaska. Prospectors found gold in the Fortymile River drainage and at Birch Creek in the upper Yukon River area. Following discoveries in western British Columbia, gold was found in Southeast Alaska. Alaska, it seemed, was the scene of a continuing gold rush that started in the 1860s and extended into the early 1900s. ![]()
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