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Why Was The Klondike Gold Rush Successful

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The Klondike Gold Rush was an event of migration by an estimated 100,000 people. They went to prospect the gold. This event took place at the Klondike region of north-western Canada in the Yukon region between and It’s also called the Yukon Gold Rush. Many was successful many was not. In August 1896 when Skookum Jim Mason, Dawson Charlie and George Washington Carmack found gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon. This caused many stampeders to search Yukon in hopes of finding gold.To reach the gold fields, most took the route through the ports of Dyea and Skagway in Southeast Alaska. This took place from 1896 to 1899.

I think the gold rush was not successful because stampeders traveled
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