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Hi, Olivia. Hi, Katie. Today, we're going to join the Stampeeters in the Klondike Gold Rush.

Ooh.

A massive international event whose impact can hardly be overstated in modern history.

Ooh!

In the late 1800s, the Klondike was the last great frontier in the Yukon, Canada, very near the Arctic Circle, inhabited by a group of less than 100 tag-ish people living in two clans.

Until August 17, 1896, gold was found. Oh, poor them. An insane amount of gold. It was found by a

fascinating character, a prospector known as lying George. Again, why do prospectors always have the best

nicknames? Yes, so we get another episode full of amazing nicknames. Wow. Lying George would tell

lots of different versions of his gold strike story before his life was

through. And rumor had it that none of his versions were true. And he certainly staked the first

claim. Then he sent word to all the other prospectors up there in the far north,

triggering the most epic gold rush stampede of them all.

Into the frozen north.

Years later, as she settled into old age,

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