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In the late 1858, prospectors found gold near Pikes peak.
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In early 1859, thousand of people flocked west to Colorado.
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In the late 1850s, some miners pushed as far north as the Fraser River Valley of British Columbia.
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U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska.
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In 1896, prospectors discovered gold in the Klondike district of Canada's Yukon Territory,
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By the summer of 1897, Yukon Miners had extracted gold worth more than one Million dollars
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The gold discoveries in Alaska in 1898 and 1902 attracted even more settlers.
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Western Mining camps were some of the most violent places in the United States during the late 1800s.
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Many miners injured and many miners also died from the mines collapsing, and the rocks falling. The wages got cut and the Chinese miners were getting payed lower than the American miners.
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In the early 1900s, mining increasingly became the task of large companies.