The basic plot of 14 Carrot Rabbit takes place during the gold rush in The Klondike, Yukon, and centers on Yosemite Sam (here as Chilkoot Sam) whose attempts are to steal other people's gold.
His nickname of "Klondike" came from having spent part of his youth growing up in Kamloops, British Columbia.
For a considerable period of time, Ferbert was out of contact in the Klondike, but he emerged on the Seward Peninsula.
Boyle was early to recognize the potential of large-scale gold mining in the Klondike gold fields, and as the initial placer mining operations waned after 1900, Boyle and other companies imported equipment to assemble enormous dredges, usually electric-powered, that took millions more ounces of gold from the creeks while turning the landscape upside-down, shifting creeks.
They are visited by an equally old Duke Johnson (Crosby), and the three reminisce about their previous adventure in the Klondike.
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Carmacks is situated at the confluence of the Nordenskiold and Yukon rivers, approximately 180 km (112 miles) north of Whitehorse and 360 km (224 miles) south of Dawson City on the North Klondike Highway.
Fortymile was the location of a mining office where the Klondike gold strike claim was registered by George Carmack and his two relatives, Dawson Charlie and Skookum Jim Mason.
Charlie Chaplin's silent film The Gold Rush (1925), the highest grossing silent comedy, was set in the Klondike, as was the silent epic The Trail of '98 (1928) and Mae West's Klondike Annie (1936).
Copperbelt MLA Haakon Arntzen resigned after facing sexual assault charges and Klondike MLA Peter Jenkins was ousted after refusing to repay a government loan.
After the Titanic disaster, they reached America and carried on with their plans to visit British Columbia, Klondyke and Alaska.
While working at a sawmill he read a newspaper account of the discovery of gold in the Klondike and headed to Alaska to make his fortune.
In 1996, as part of the Klondike Gold Rush Centennial Celebration, he organized and led "Klondike Bound", a month-long expedition by three fathers and their teenage daughters to retrace the route taken by the original "Stampeders".
Ernie Pyle has a chapter about Klondike Kate (who he calls Kate Rothrock) in his book Home Country
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Kathleen Eloise Rockwell (1873–1957), best known as "Klondike Kate", and later known as Kate Rockwell Warner Matson Van Duren, gained her fame as a dancer and vaudeville star during the Klondike Gold Rush, where she met Alexander Pantages who later became a very successful vaudeville/motion picture mogul.
Klondike Kat lives in Fort Frazzle and answers to commanding officer Major Minor (modeled after Terry-Thomas, and voiced by Kenny Delmar).
With the discovery of gold in the Yukon against the advice of their father he went with his brother's impulse and he spent a year at Dawson City, in the Klondike gold region, enduring many hardships, but gaining valuable experience.
: Berlin Klondyke, The Odd Gallery / Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
Belinda Mulrooney (1872-1967), Irish-American entrepreneur who made a fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush
The Selkirk First Nation community was established as a ferry crossing and a highway construction camp when the Klondike Highway from Whitehorse to Dawson City was built in 1950.
His later work, including the Klondike Pete and the Huskies’ albums Some of the Fellers and Who Axed You, featured the work of Geraint Watkins.