THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Aug. 25, 1897

• Klondike Gold Rush
• Yukon - Alaska - Canada

The top of a front page column has reports on the Klondike gold rush, with: "CRAZE CONTINUES"and subheads. (see images)
Complete in 4 pages, two library stamps at the top, good condition.

Background: On August 20, 1897, the Klondike Gold Rush reached a historic tipping point as thousands of prospectors ("stampeders") swarmed the Seattle waterfront to board heavily overloaded steamships like the Willamette, Humboldt, and City of Topeka, bound for the Yukon goldfields. This particular exodus was extraordinarily notable because it represented the immediate, chaotic wave of "Klondikeitis" triggered just weeks earlier by the arrival of the S.S. Portland carrying over a ton of gold; rare archival photographs and historical logs from this precise day capture a city radically transformed overnight into the premier outfitting capital of the American West. The departures on August 20 were exceptionally rare and critical in their timing: prospectors racing against the calendar were making a desperate, high-stakes gamble to reach the treacherous Chilkoot or White Pass trails before the harsh subarctic winter froze the Yukon River, forcing thousands to make unprecedented logistical preparations—including hauling a mandatory 2,000-pound supply kit per person—that fundamentally reshaped Pacific Northwest maritime history and the settlement of the Alaskan frontier.