On August 16th, 1896 a prospector named George Carmack, his Tagish Indian wife Kate, her brother Skookum Jim and nephew Tagish Charlie were looking for gold along Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River, when they found a bonanza in gold. Rabbit Creek would soon become famous as Bonanza Creek. Fearing other miners might take away an Indian’s right to stake a claim Carmack was listed as the discoverer. The next day he filed four claims the next day at the Canadian police station at Fort
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