A self-taught geologist, Ryan uses the left-hand screen to display the colored maps ... Dawson was declared the capital of the newly founded Yukon Territory, word of a new strike in Nome, Alaska ...

During the 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush, thousands of wealth-seekers stampeded through the Yukon—over the brutal Chilkoot Trail from Alaska ... the Yukon River to Dawson City and its goldfields.