Finding silver in Keno--Striking it big after the Klondike Gold Rush

摘要

It was in the fall of 1918 when Louis Beauvette, an expert woodsman and occasional miner, came across rocks containing silver ore while hunting in the hills above Duncan Creek in the backwoods of the Yukon. He began tracing the rocks further uphill to find their source, but it grew cold and began to snow. He was forced to turn back, determined to return the following year. Prospectors had long known that silver existed in the Yukon, but few had sought after it. There, gold was everything. It was not only worth more than silver but had more glamour as well. The Klondike Gold Rush was in full swing just ten years earlier and the discovery on Bonanza Creek in 1896 began a stampede that brought some 40,000 entrepreneurs to the ram-shackled boomtown of Dawson City.