The University of Washington is responsible for this excellent Website devoted to the history of the Pacific Northwest. The site makes available a generous selection of the Center's voluminous materials in regional history. Of recent note is the section offering Curriculum Materials for the study of the Klondike Gold Rush. The Webpage provides substantial historical background on the Gold Rush, lesson planning materials such as discussion themes and classroom activities, a bibliography of historical texts, and most impressively, on-site access to primary documents. In fact, the site posts 149 discrete items, including letters from miners and their families, selections from diaries and memoirs, photographs, advertisements, newspaper articles, and guides to the Klondike and Yukon gold fields.
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