8/22/2023 0 Comments Yukon gold rush![]() ![]() Who saw the gold first is a matter of dispute. A few days later, in mid August 1896, they discovered gold on Rabbit (Bonanza) Creek when one of them found a nugget the size of a dime. The trio were incensed and left the area. Henderson told Carmack that he knew of a promising spot to look for gold, but would not share it with Carmack's First Nations companions. They encountered Robert Henderson, who was also prospecting for gold. Keish, George, and Káa Goox then set off from the fishing camp to go prospecting in the Klondike basin. They discovered the Carmacks and their daughter at the mouth of the Klondike River. Several years later, having heard no news of the Carmack family, Keish and his nephews Koołseen (Patsy Henderson) and Káa Goox went to search for them. In 1891, the couple had daughter Saayna.aat, known also as Daisy. Keish remained in Tagish, and in the early 1890s he married Daakuxda.éit (Mary), a Tlingit woman. In the summer of 1889, George and Kate Carmack left Tagish to go prospecting in the Forty Mile region. Through Carmack, Keish became interested in prospecting, and in 1888 Carmack, Keish, and Goox began prospecting together up the Yukon River. This was later developed as an alternative route to the Klondike. In 1887, Keish helped Captain William Moore with a survey of the White Pass, a low lying pass to the east of the Chilkoot Trail. Carmack later started a family with Keish's sister Shaaw Tláa ( Kate Carmack). Keish and Carmack became friends, and together with Keish's nephew Káa Goox (Dawson Charlie) they formed a partnership and spent two years packing on the Chilkoot Pass. ![]() Keish met George Washington Carmack, an American trader and prospector, while working on the Trail at Dyea. He reportedly packed 70 kilos of bacon over the Chilkoot Pass for the surveyor, which was more than double the regular load. Keish assisted the government surveyor William Ogilvie in his explorations of the upper Yukon River. Skookum means "strong", "big", and "reliable" in the Chinook Jargon and regional English as used in the Pacific Northwest. He earned his Skookum nickname because of his extraordinary strength: he could carry huge loads of more than 45 kilos. In the mid-1880s, Keish spent the summers working as a packer, carrying supplies from the Alaska Coast over the passes to the Yukon River system. The name Keish is a Tagish word meaning "wolf". The family had two sons and six daughters who reached adulthood. His family was involved in trade between the coastal Tlingit and the inland Tagish. His mother, Gus'duteen, was from Tahltan country around Telegraph Creek while his father was Kaachgaawáa, chief of the Tagish Deisheetaan. Keish was born around 1855 near Lake Bennett into the Daḵl'aweidi clan of Tagish. ![]() He lived in Caribou Crossing, now Carcross, Yukon, Canada. He was born near Bennett Lake on what is now the British Columbia and Yukon border. 1855 – July 11, 1916), also known as James Mason and by the nickname Skookum Jim Mason, was a member of the Tagish First Nation in what became the Yukon Territory of Canada. Discovery Claim that led to the Klondike Gold Rush ![]()
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