gold mines and mining

After consolidating its status as an independent nation, the United States began to expand its borders to the west. Western Expansion: 1813-1900 recounts the key events in this movement and the settlement of the western frontier. It includes the immigration boom from Europe to the United States, the Louisiana Purchase, the Gold Rush, and the travels of Louis and Clark.

In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.

In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.