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Klondike Gold Dredge: A Nugget of Klondike Gold - Skagway Alaska VHS 2000

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This tape was made in 2000 by Klondike Gold Dredge Tours. The back reads:

"Klondike.. Gold..a story of one leads to a story of the other. This is the story of the gold dredge, a floating giant invented to work the gold fields of Alaska, the Yukon, and the American West faster and more efficiently than simply panning for gold.

In this fascinating video, you can go back in time to see one of the world's last gold dredges in operation. Capable of processing tons of goldbearing earth every day, dredges like the Klondike Gold Dredge mined over 10% of all the gold taken from both the Yukon and Alaska.

For this program, rare archival film footage and photographs are pieced together with interviews of the men who actually toiled on this dredge and the men who saved it nearly 50 years later.

The story of the Klondike Gold Dredge of Yukon's Sixtymile District is told by those who owned her and worked her in the glory days, then left her to the elements. Those who rescued her from the gold fields and moved her to the banks of the scenic Skagway River tell another story.. the story of a Nugget of Klondike Gold"

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