During the Klondike Gold Rush from 1896 to 1899 gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek in Canada's Yukon Territory, drawing tens of thousands of prospectors seeking fortune. The journey was perilous and every person had to bring a year's worth of food and supplies, boosting demand in remote Dawson City. Merchants made fortunes by selling essential provisions at high prices. One prospector named Arthur Dietz was tricked into buying what he thought were evaporated eggs but turned out to be 100 pound

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is a national historical park operated by the National Park Service that seeks to commemorate the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s. Though the gold fields that were the ultimate goal of the stampeders lay in Yukon, the park comprises staging areas for the trek there and the routes leading in its direction. There are four units, including three in Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska and a fourth in the Pioneer Square National Historic District i