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The Gold Rush was on.

In the late 1890s, thousands of miners flocked to the Yukon Territory in Western Canada,

not far from its border with the future American state of Alaska.

The miners converged on a sleepy fishing village called Dawson at the confluence of the Yukon

and Kondike rivers. Dawson became the epicenter of the Kondike Gold Rush, one of the last

gold rushes in North America. But the boom was brief. After just two years, the mines were played

and the miners had largely moved on to strikes in British Columbia and Alaska.

About 1300 hardy souls stayed in Dawson City and they were literally at the end of the line.

The Kondike Highway did end at Dawson City. If you wanted to go past it, you had to blaze your own trail.

So in the early 1900s, the people of Dawson had film reels delivered to their small community

to keep up with events in the outside world. But it was a one-way trip for the films.

When they arrived in Dawson, they never left.

The town's folk watched all kinds of things, feature films, comedy shorts, human interest stories,

and newsreels of current events. In those days, the film reels were made with a nitrate base,

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