


Prospector X and his companions weren’t the only ones with that problem. Tableau and stage lights dim until focused on NARRATOR. (everyone walks off stage left, as if chatting) Nope, everyone else around here have all been having the same problems. Even these Cheechako, who haven’t survived a winter here are just as unlucky as I am. I’ve been here for over a year, so I’m a sourdough, but still nothing. I expect you …show more content… (center stage) Sam Steele, arguably the most famous mountie ever, monitors the banks of the Klondike river during the epic Klondike Gold Rush. Almost overnight, the city had gained 30-40 000 residents, and with all the lights from tents and campfires, the city earned the name of the City of Lights.

In the South, the Long Depression was in full effect, and the gold rush offered an opportunity to transcend its economic effects. Here, a tiny force of mounties attempted to keep the peace in Dawson City. On the banks of the Klondike river, thousands of prospectors stood and knelt, panning for the ever so elusive dust that seemed to have some sort of mind control, using shine and luster to call people to it in a mad paroxysm. November 1898, and the Gold Rush in the Yukon was in full swing.
