The Views Of The Klondike Gold Rush

Yet despite any conjectures drawn from accounts of scholars, merchants, officials and priests it is impossible to know the full extent of the economic and social effects of silver without the voice of the common people. It was the commoners, laborers, slaves, farmers and peasants which bore the full brunt of the trade. Their every day lives relied on day to day paychecks, which mandated how they survived. It is the rise and fall of poverty in the peasantry, the social unrest or benefit of the commoners that would reveal the true effect of silver. The majority of all of

During the 1800’s, lives changed for many people. The Klondike Gold Rush began. In the article Klondike Gold Rush written by the Public Domain, the passage from A Women Who Went to Alaska written by May Kellogg Sullivan, and the video City of Gold made by the National Film Board of Canada and narrated Pierre Berton, the points of view of each show the miners’ lives. Each piece has a point of view, which helps the reader understand the miners’ lives through the word choice, and the tone

Despite the nation’s increase in wealth through urbanization and the façade of a prospering people, the fraudulency of the Gilded Age crippled the masses in their rise to security. The competiveness amongst laborers, a battle for control of

The daily life of a miner was far from perfect. The way the papers and other means of propaganda had portrayed getting rich quick, but it was far from easy. All the equipment that was needed to start out as a miner was for the most part outrageous. The earning wages from gold was” sixteen dollars an ounce” pg.8. Even so, the work was backbreaking. There was swarms of minors trying to get rich quick. To many miners that traveled to get a piece of the precious metal they where resorted to taking land from previous land owner just to get ahead in the Gold Rush. Not to mention that the living conditions where also outrageous. The “rentals of hotels and other business structures, whether of boards or of canvas, reached even dizzier heights than did commodity prices” pg.8. This spaces where set prices at 3,000 dollars a month or 40,000 dollars for a year, there was also other prices around the area of San Francisco. And in some cases miners where resorted to living in a room filled to the brim with other miners. This lead to very poor conditions for any one to live in. But nothing was better then being rich in a few months or

In order to corner gold, someone had to keep treasury from selling so they had to get close with the highest power.

During the rise of industrialization, the United States had just ended the Civil War and was starting to move on. People had an aspiration at this time to make a more than decent living for themselves, and the economy was at the right spot for this to be possible. This time period in American History is referred to as the Gilded Age, termed by the famous author Mark Twain, which simply means covered in gold; however, Twain did not necessarily mean this in a good way. He believed right under the surface of this gold plating was still problems with the American society that didn’t look so appealing. This essay will discuss how practices during the rise of industrialization during the Gilded Age shaped the American work and labor force.

The discovery of precious metals by James Marshall in Coloma, California, especially gold attracted thousands of immigrants from different parts of America, Asia, Europe and Australia during 1848 to seek job opportunity when California experienced labor shortages in the gold rush. Based on the article written by Karen Wilson, the influx of French observers, job seekers and miners were among the controversial immigrants because of their experience, and reports. The French encountered hostile treatment, lack of equality, greed and disruptive limitation being categorized as a foreigner while looking for job opportunities. Their expectation was translated to anxiety and social fear

After reading the three short works, I noticed how influential the gilded age time period truly was on these men’s stories. The gilded age was a period of excess and wealth which created the divide in America’s socioeconomic classes further widening the gap between the upper class and lower class. The themes of wealth are obvious themes throughout the stories, but it is also noticeable in the three titles. All three titles are associated to work, but also excess wealth.

It was the 1800’s, and common people called stampeders, went searching for gold in the klondike. The stampeders did this because, they wanted to strike it rich! The stampeders had to walk miles to get to the gold. The stampeders had to walk up The Golden Stairs, that were made out of snow and ice, and there were like a billion steps. They got to the klondike by either boat, train, or walked. 100,000 people went to the klondike to become rich, but only 4,000 people found gold there.

The Klondike Gold Rush made people drool for money. The Klondike Gold Rush was an event that took place in the late 1800’s. Common people wanted to find gold so they could become as rich as a leprechaun. You would do this by walking the Golden Staircase to Yukon, Klondike, or Alaska. 100,000 people did this in the frigid cold. Lots of people risked their lives to find gold to become rich.

Some people prevail instead of fail off their enemies because the weather conditions were harsh during the summer and winter, which the summer caused floods, deep mud holes and had mosquitoes. The winter caused the water to freeze, which no boats were available and caused the miners to face blizzards, hikes across glaciers, and falls over creases or icy cliffs. These conditions caused many hazards which made half of the miners die before getting to the gold. According to Gibbs, author of The Klondike Gold Rush, the cause of the miners having to buy stuff “meant a booming business for seattle”(Gibbs). After close analysis one could synthesize that many people died on the journey weather it was by boat or foot but some people fulfilled their

The articles “Klondike Gold Rush” by Gordon Stables , and “A Woman who went to Alaska” by Meg Kellogg, both discuss the lives of miners in different points of view. These help shape the reader’s understanding about the lives of miners. The text “Klondike Gold Rush” tells the story through the point of view of a third person omniscient narrator. This gives a narrator that knows all about the miners and their lives, or what they go through. In the text it said, “Soon miners of all shapes and sizes, called ‘stampeders’, were on their way to the gold fields.

In the book, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, a story is told of a man, who traveled to Colorado to prospect for gold. He traveled west on a train, claimed a piece of land and went to work. After many weeks of digging and searching, his hard work was rewarded with the discovery of gold. Realizing what he discovered, he quietly went back to his home to Williamsburg, Maryland, to tell his relatives and a few friends about his discovery. Together they bought the machines needed to mine the gold, and sent the machinery ahead of them. A few of them went back to the mine to work, looking for the golden ore.

The group’s economic and social goals were, for the search of gold. Many really worked hard for their goals. Many had made their journey on foot or by a wagon. The gold was free for whoever was to be so lucky to find it. Many miners returned to San Francisco. People were either rich or most often broke and looking for their

The entertainment and excitement of this novel takes place in the Yukon Territory. The Yukon Territory is located in Canada, just outside of Alaska. The events took place during the Klondike Gold rush in the 1890’s. Many people went to the Klondike in search for gold, but many of them failed to succeed. Some people even died on their journey to find the gold because of the harsh climate and the dangerous wilderness.