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	George Carmack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Washington Carmack (September 24, 1860 – 1922) was a Contra Costa County, California-born prospector in the Yukon.
		Carmack was not popular with other miners who nicknamed him "Squaw Man" for his association with native people and "Lyin' George" for his exaggerated claims.
		In August 1896, he and Kate were fishing at the mouth of the Klondike River when Skookum Jim, his nephew Dawson Charlie and another nephew found them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Carmack (227 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Kate’s union with George served to reinforce the alliance between her male relatives and Carmack.
		They found Kate with her husband and young daughter fishing for salmon at the junction of the Klondike and Yukon rivers.
		Alcohol became a problem for her, the marriage failed, and in 1900 George met and married a Dawson prostitute, leaving Kate almost penniless in California.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41820 (708 words)

	Threads of Gold--Gold Strike On The Klondike
		George and Kate Carmack, Skookum Jim, Dawson Charlie, and nephew Patsy Henderson camped at the mouth of the Klondike River during August 1896.
		Carmack asserted that an Indian would not be allowed to register a claim, so he staked the discovery claim on August 1896 for himself and agreed to assign half interest to Skookum Jim.
		Kate lived with Graphie, but George lured his daughter from the village so she could marry his new wife's brother...perhaps in a plot to keep control of the family fortune.
	www.uaf.edu /museum/exhibits/tog/gsk.html (1203 words)

	Carmack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Carmack (1860-1922), discoverer of gold in the Klondike region
		John Carmack (born 1970), game programmer, cofounder of id Software
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carmack (99 words)

	Women of the Alaskan and Yukon Gold Rush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kate was married to a Tlingit man and bore a daughter; both husband and child died.
		Kate and George traveled to the States along with other “Klondike Kings.” Uncomfortable in the foreign environment and the glare of constant publicity that followed them, Kate began to drink heavily.
		Kate died poor and unrecognized a the age of sixty-three during an influenza epidemic in 1920.
	clairerudolfmurphy.com /index.2ts?page=goldwomen (1199 words)

	Northern Women: Notable Explorers, Pioneers and Historical Figures
		Wife of George Carmack and contributor to the discovery of gold in the Yukon's Klondike.
		Kate was born in 1860 at Kokrines to a Koyukon Athabascan mother and Russian father.
		Kate had eleven children, but the first three died before 1888 (There's a picture of her and four of her children on the Jack McQuesten page).
	www.yukoncollege.yk.ca /~agraham/womensconf/nwnotable1.htm (1811 words)

	Hard Drive to the Klondike: Promoting Seattle During the Gold Rush (Chapter 6)
		The George Carmack (1910-1922) residence is located at the corner of East Jefferson and 16th Avenue.
		When Carmack and his wife disposed of their holdings in the Klondike, they moved to Seattle where they took residence at the prestigious Hotel Seattle.
		Kate Carmack did not enjoy living in Seattle and returned to her northern home.
	www.nps.gov /klse/hrs/hrs6a7.htm (427 words)

	The Press
		Kate Fraser is glad she took her mother's advice when she discovers that once more it's hip to dip.
		Carmack is a global citizen – he grew up and went to college in the north-west United States, spent a number of years in France, and has been a resident of Sydney since the 1980s.
		Robert Carmack's book covers cheese fondues, meat and fish cooked in wine and stock fondues, Burgundian fondues (where the food is cooked at the table in small pots of hot oil and butter), Asian fondues, and sweet fondues.
	www.globetrottinggourmet.com /go/press/thepress.htm (702 words)

	The COURIER-MAIL
		Carmack was born in Camas, Washington, on America's northwest coast, and after studying journalism and briefly flirting with the notion of becoming a newspaper film critic, headed to France for culinary credentials at the La Varenne cooking school.
		Carmack migrated to Australia in 1987, after working as a food researcher and editor with the late American food guru James Beard and on the Time-Life The Good Cook cookbook series.
		While Carmack and Polkinghorne have criss-crossed Asia extensively for nearly two decades, it was only last year that they decided to formally enter the burgeoning food tour market.
	www.globetrottinggourmet.com /go/press/cmail.htm (786 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Through his association with Carmack, Jim developed gold fever, and in 1888 the three men made their first prospecting trip together up the Yukon River.
		The bonds of partnership were strengthened later the same year when Carmack began living with Jim’s sister Shaaw Tláa, who became known as Kate Carmack.
		George Carmack staked the double “discovery claim” before Charles Constantine, the acting commissioner, on 24 Sept. 1896, while Jim and Charlie staked on either side.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41611 (741 words)

	Discovery of Gold in the Klondike
		The main character, American George Carmack, casual prospector, and free spirit in the age of the work ethic, preferred the lifestyle of the local Tagish Indians.
		The summer of 1896 found him, his wife Kate and her relatives, Skookum Jim and Dawson Charlie, at a traditional Indian fish camp at the junction of the Klondike and Yukon rivers.
		Carmack insisted on staking the Discovery claim which was the largest.
	north-land.com /ypa/KlondikeDiscovery.html (767 words)

	Yukon Information on the Klondike Goldrush
		After finding Kate and George Carmack, Skookum Jim and the others were fishing in the Klondike River.
		Carmack asked whether there was a chance that he could stake a claim.
		George Carmack, Skookum Jim and Dawson Charlie staked their claims the next day and renamed the creek "Bonanza".
	www.fishingyukon.com /goldrush.html (1572 words)

	F.M. Carmack
		An older brother, E. Carmack, was a member of the graduating class of 1848.
		While both were pure and clean in life, their uprightness was not of that harsh, repulsive character that offended those whose lives were not of so upright a mold.
		Immediately after graduation, Professor Carmack was chosen as a member of the corps of instructors of Franklin College, giving special attention to the teaching of Latin and Greek.
	www.therestorationmovement.com /carmack,fm.htm (1229 words)

	George Washington Carmack
		Carmack joined the Indians and created an inseparable relationship with Kate, his wife, and her relatives Skookum Jim Mason and Tagish Charlie, the tribe's chief.
		The Discovery claim was recorded on August 17, 1896, and Carmack's announcement of gold stirred skeptical prospectors from Fortymile and other risky diggings.
		Carmack, along with Skookum Jim Mason (circa 1855-1916), Tagish Charlie (died 1908) and Robert Henderson (1857-1933) were inducted into the Prospectors' Hall of Fame in 1988.
	north-land.com /ypa/GeorgeCarmack.html (582 words)

	The Klondike by J. Kingston Pierce
		A few are fairly well known, such as "Klondike Kate" Rockwell, whose Flame Dance ("in which she moved gracefully to music in flashy costumes at a pace that kept about 200 yards of chiffon airborne") made her the toast of Dawson.
		As Backhouse tells it, Kate and George Carmack tried to ride their celebrity beyond the north country.
		Carmack eventually disowned Kate, who moved back to the Yukon and from there proceeded to pummel her now ex-hubby with lawsuits until she died of influenza in 1920.
	www.januarymagazine.com /nonfiction/klondike.html (1670 words)

	CultureCanada.gc.ca
		George Carmack did not file the Bonanza Creek discovery claim until the 24th of September.
		Carmack and his party had a long way to travel to Fort Constantine where the only government offices were located.
		The members were Kate Carmack, Tagish Charlie, and Skookum Jim Mason, or Keish, who most believe actually found the first colours.
	culturecanada.gc.ca /factoid.cfm?lang=eng&f=93 (154 words)

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		Carmack named himself as the discoverer, entitling him to two claims and registered one claim each for Skookum Jim and Dawson Charlie.
		The unwritten "miners code" said that Carmack was to send word to Robert Henderson so that Henderson could stake a claim on the creek that he had suggested.
		Carmack, still angry over the slight to his native Yukon family, did not.
	www.nps.gov /klse/Resource_Guide.htm (6562 words)

	Amazon.com: A Cold Day for Murder (Kate Shugak Mystery): Books: Dana Stabenow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When the FBI agent assigned to search for the ranger goes missing, Kate Shugak, a native of the area where the two men were last seen, and an expert in Arctic wilderness survival skills, is asked to take the case, she accepts although their trail is now colder than the weather.
		The author delves into Kate's background, presents some of her family members, spins a thrilling mystery, and touches on the political issues of environmental protection and loss of native cultures that Ms.
		Kate Shugak is super savvy, tough, prickly, and vulnerable, although she hides it well.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/042513301X?v=glance (2256 words)

	Women of the Klondike. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Backhouse introduces a diverse group, beginning with Tagish-Tlingit Kate Carmack, whose husband, brother, and nephew began the rush when they struck gold on Rabbit Creek in 1896.
		For Carmack, Backhouse says, the 'gold rush was more tragic than glorious,' and led ultimately to her losing both her marriage and her daughter.
		We begin with Kate Carmack, but from that point Native women and men fade from the picture, and white newcomers take the seemingly inevitable centre stage.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/802/klondike4.html (772 words)

	Alaska - Dawson and Klondike, Y. T.
		Some say it was on the 17th of August, 1896, that Kate Carmack herself, washing in the creek eight or ten miles from the present Dawson, noticed yellow pebbles in the water and carried them to show her husband and her brothers—Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie.
		Carmack left her to shift for herself, and she returned to her own people in Carcross where, after years of poverty, she died.
		Some say it was Carmack himself, out hunting with his Indian brother-in-law,—or, in another version, " fishing for salmon beside the old birch tree,"—who first saw tell-tale coarse colors on Bonanza.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles13/alaska-7.shtml (3149 words)

	WriteYukon > Klondike Gold Rush > History
		After locating Kate and George Carmack, Skookum Jim and the others were fishing in the Klondike River.
		It was July when veteran gold-seeker Robert Henderson approached the group and told Carmack about some good prospects he had found on Gold Bottom Creek in the Klondike River Valley.
		George Carmack, Skookum Jim and Dawson Charlie staked their claims the next day and renamed the creek “Bonanza.” The men headed downstream to the community of Fortymile to register their claims, but they never travelled over the dome to tell Henderson of their find.
	www.writeyukon.com /klondike/gr_history.asp?i=D2C4&a=9994T7D29 (1082 words)

	Unique Facts about Canada: Klondike Gold Rush
		The Klondike Gold Rush was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and gold prospecting in the Klondike near Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada, after gold was discovered in the late 19th century.
		Henderson told George Carmack about where he was mining and that he did not want any "damn Siwashes" (meaning Indians) near him.
		George Carmack was officially credited for the discovery because the "discovery" claim was staked in his name.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /canadaweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Canada7.htm (897 words)

	Voices: A Celebration of Alaskan Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Often called the "Queen of the Klondike," Kate Rockwell was born in--take your pick--1880, 1892, or 1900; since she claimed to be various ages throughout her lifetime, her date of birth continued to inch forward.
		NARRATOR: Of course, Klondike Kate could not have strutted her stuff in Dawson had not another Kate, Kate Carmack, first camped next to Rabbit Creek on August 17, 1896, in company with her husband George, her brother Tagish Charley and friend Skookum Jim.
		Kate fried some fish for breakfast that morning, and afterward took her skillet to the creek, to fill it with dirt and water to clean it prospector fashion.
	www.stabenow.com /2446.cfm (4134 words)

	Klondike Gold Rush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A typical gold mining operation, on Bonanza Creek The Klondike Gold Rush was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and gold prospecting in the Klondike near Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada, after gold was discovered in the late 19th century.
		In August 1896, three people led by Skookum Jim Mason (a member of the Tagish nation whose birth name was Keish) headed up the Yukon River from the Carcross area looking for his sister Kate and her husband George Carmack.
		After meeting up with George and Kate who were fishing for salmon at the mouth of the Klondike River, they ran into Nova Scotian Robert Henderson who had been mining gold on the Indian River, just south of the Klondike.
	klondike-gold-rush.ask.dyndns.dk (900 words)

	Dawson Charlie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the nephew of Skookum Jim Mason and accompanied him on his search for his aunt Kate Carmack.
		He staked one of the first three claims in the Klondike, along with his uncle and George Carmack.
		He died in Carcross, Yukon when he fell off the White Pass railway bridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dawson_Charlie (130 words)

	Klondike Highway Yukon Canada
		The graveyard in Carcross is the final resting spot of Skookum Jim, Dawson Charlie and Kate Carmack, the group who first found gold on Bonanza Creek.
		Carmacks As the highway continues north to Carmacks, it passes Lake Laberge, the body of water immortalized in Robert Service's poem The Cremation of Sam McGee.
		North of the rapids, Minto was a stagecoach stop during the first part of this century, and you can still see the remains of the roadhouse on the banks of the river.
	www.strathlorntravel.co.uk /klondike-highway.asp (718 words)

	Galesburg Alaska Mining & Developing Co.
		Gold had been discovered August 17, 1896 by "Siwash" George Washington Carmack, his wife Kate and his two Indian brothers-in-law, Tagish Charley and Skookum.
		They were fishing for Salmon and had killed a moose which they were hauling to camp when four gold nuggets of significant size were seen in the gravel on Bonanza Creek.
		Kate and George stayed to protect their find while Jim and Charley hurried to Forty Mile where the claims were recorded.
	www.thezephyr.com /archives/gbgak.htm (2638 words)

	The Yukon Gold Rush time line
		Discovery of gold in the Klondike by George and Kate Carmack, Skookum Jim and Dawson Charlie.
		George Carmack, Skookum Jim and Dawson Charlie stake their claims on Bonanza Creek
		The population of Yukon has dropped to just over 4,000 - nearly half of which are of First Nations descent.
	www.fishingyukon.com /goldrush_timeline.html (431 words)

	Chris Carmack In Entertaining Mr. Sloane \| Just Jared
		Kath's (Jan Maxwell) language may be prim but her intentions are blatant when she picks up Mr.
		Attractive, mischievous and dangerous, Sloane eventually has Kath, her brother Ed (Alec Baldwin) and their father Kemp (Richard Easton) eating out of his hand as they all compete for his favors.
		Many guest-starring roles later, Carmack is ready to conquer another acting platform -- Off-Broadway.
	www.justjared.com /gossip/2006/03/chris_carmack_in_entertaining.php (322 words)

	Dawson City
		It all started on August 17 1896 when George Carmack, Tagish Charlie and Skookum Jim struck it rich on Bonanza Creek.
		On the western bank of the Yukon River just north of town there's an amazing "stern wheelers graveyard" where several old paddle wheel boats from the gold rush days have found their final destination.
		Dawson City has a wonderful museum, a log cabin where Robert W. Service wrote his famous poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", a great restaurant called Klondike Kate's, and a free ferry across the Yukon River to the 'Top of The World Highway'.
	henkbinnendijk.tripod.com /dawson (241 words)

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