Category: Dawson City

• Yukon Gold 2

  Formerly an important summer gathering spot and base for moose-hunting in the Klondike Valley as well as a camp for the First Nations’ community in the area, Dawson City rose to prominence as the center of the Klondike Gold Rush. It began in 1896 and changed the First Nations camp into a thriving city of 40,000 by 1898.…

  Frank Binder

  December 3, 2013

  Autumn, Autumn Colors, Dawson City, Tombstone Territorial Park, Yukon

  Dempster Highway, Gold Mining, Sourtoe Cocktail

• Yukon Gold

  My friend Doug emailed me and asked whether I’d be interested in going on a photography trip to the Tombstone Mountains. I thought wow, “the town too tough to die” had mountains? I watched the movie but I didn’t recall seeing Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday chasing Ike and Billy Clanton through the mountains, only…

  Frank Binder

  November 6, 2013

  Dawson City, Monument Mountain, National Parks, Tombstone Mountains, Yukon

  autumn colors, Klondike, Tombstone Mountains