Gold was first discovered in the Yukon territory on August 16, 1896. According to the National Park Service, there is some controversy over the identity of the person who first spotted the gold, but George Carmack is generally credited with its discovery.
Carmack was a prospector from California who spotted the gold on a riverbed while fishing salmon with his wife Kate, her brother Skookum Jim, and another man called Dawson Charlie. (See the first reference link provided.)
The news of this discovery sparked the Klondike Gold Rush, the last great rush of its kind, with prospectors traveling far and wide to stake their claims on any land in the Yukon they could find. For more information, see the second reference link provided.
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