A miners life

Miners

• Skookum Jim, Tagish Charlie, George Washington Carmac, 100,000 others
• Left farm and went into manufacturing then quit because of unair labor
• lost their crops because of poor soil and weather conditions

miners conditions

• trails they took to the yukon gold rush were difficult and life threatening
• the theives were stealing supplies
• there were rock slides, avalanches
• it was the midst of a major economic depression
• they had to save equipment for expedition 

transportation

• they had boats, dog sleds, carriages, and walking

result

• 70,000 deaths
• 4,000 got lucky and got a fortune
• also got a new way of life
• bandits would take people's gold and they would become bankrupt